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Lot description
Sonia Gechtoff American, 1926-2018 Dual Dream IV Acrylic and pencil on paper Signed and dated 80 lower right. Unframed. Lot includes Gruenebaum Gallery label and another sale label, taken off back of former frame. Sonia Gechtoff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1926. She was born into the world of art, as her mother managed art galleries, including her own East West gallery in San Francisco, California; and her father was a highly successful Abstract Expressionist and Futurist artist from Odessa in the Ukraine. Taught to paint at a very young age, Gechtoff's talent was recognized early. She graduated from the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art with a BFA in 1950 and relocated to San Francisco to attend the California School of Fine Arts in 1951. Gechtoff gained national recognition in 1954, when her work was exhibited in the Guggenheim Museum's Younger American Painters show alongside Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock. She was among 18 artists featured in "Bella Pacifica: Bay Area Abstraction 1946-1963, a Symphony in Four Parts," a 2011 exhibition at four galleries in New York. She was one of 12 in "Women of Abstract Expressionism," an exhibition organized by the Denver Art Museum in 2016 that later toured. Solo and Selected Exhibitions include Dublin Gallery, Philadelphia, 1948; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, 1952; Six Gallery, 1955; Action 1, Merry-Go-Round Building, Santa Monica Pier, 1955; Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, 1957, 1959; Gruenebaum Gallery, New York,1958, 1982; Poindexter Gallery, New York, 1959, 1960; Albright College, Pennsylvania, 1966; Westbeth Galleries, New York, 1971, 1972; San Francisco Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era 1976; Laguna Art Museum & San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, 1996.