1955 Listed MADELEINE GEKIERE Watercolor MODERNIST DOG New York City ILLUSTRATOR

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EARLY 1955 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR BY MADELEINE GEKIERE (1919 - 2014). Very good condition, watercolor on paper, attached to backing along upper edge, unframed. Measures 20" by 13", signed and dated lower right. Modernist image of two dogs sniffing at butterflies.The Zurich-born, New York-based artist, filmmaker, illustrator, and author Madeleine Gekiere has died at age 96. A tirelessly multi-disciplinary artist, she was known not only for her drawings and mixed media paintings filled with stylized figures and indecipherable symbols, but also for her short films, short stories, and her popular illustrated books.According to the New York Post, Gekiere was found dead in her apartment in Chelsea on the morning of July 1. it was an apparent suicide.Born in Switzerland in 1919, she came to the US when she was 20 and studied at New York's Art Students League and the Brooklyn Museum School."I was not really developed as an artist," she told an interviewer in 2012. "I was trying to be a fashion artist, but I was really lousy at it. You don't know how to function when you are first starting out to things."She began showing with Babcock Gallery in the 1950s. More recently she has been showing with Fred Torres Collaborations. Her dealer announced the artist's death in an email on the evening of July 1."A moment of silence for our fellow artist, " Torres wrote. "Your influence on me and all those at the gallery will live on forever."Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library, among others.Madeleine Gekiere was born in Switzerland in 1919. She lives and works in New York. Gekiere studied at NYU, Brooklyn Museum School, and the Art Students League. Gekiere began exhibiting in the 1950's with Babcock Gallery, and continued to show there through the 1970's. Between 1953 and 1963, her books were named five times by the New York Times as one of the "Ten Best Illustrated Books of the Year." In the 1970's and 1980's her experiments in over 20 films screened extensively throughout the U.S. More recently, in the fall of 2011 Anthology Film Archives screened several of her short films including the 1980 film Chewing. In addition to Babcock Gallery, she has exhibited at Forum Gallery, New York University, and Galerie Wolfsberg, Zurich. Her work is in numerous museum collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, and the San Francisco Museum of Art.1919Born in Zürich, Switzerland2011Lives and works in New York, NYSolo Exhibitions2012New York | Fred Torres Collaborations | October 25 - January 52012New York | Fred Torres Collaborations | January 13 - February 181987New York | Aaron Berman Gallery1974New York | Pace University Gallery1972New York | Babcock Gallery1972Cullowhee, NC | Western Carolina State University1970New York | Babcock Gallery1968New York | Babcock Gallery1967Athens, GA | University of Georgia1966New York | Babcock Gallery1964New York | Babcock GallerySelected Group Exhibitions1999Zürich, Switzerland | Gallery Wolfsberg1998New York | Stephen Gang Gallery1990New York | City of New York Parks and Recreation Department1989New York | Small Objects | New York University1989New York | Ageless Perceptions | SoHo 20 Gallery1989New York | Forum GalleryCorporate and Public CollectionsBank Baer | New YorkArt Gallery of Ontario | TorontoBaltimore Museum of Art | BaltimoreBrooklyn Museum of Art | BrooklynButler Institute of American Art | Youngstown, OHChrysler Museum of Art | Norfolk, VACity Art Museum | St. LouisCleveland Museum of Art | ClevelandDallas Museum of Art | DallasDenver Art Museum | DenverDes Moines Art Center | Des MoinesEvansville Museum of Art and Sc... read more

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