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Property from the Collection of Dorothy Tremaine Hildt
The outstanding achievements of Dorothy Tremaine Hildt in fine art and philanthropy are an integral and celebrated component of the greater Tremaine family legacy. Fiercely intelligent and with an elegance of spirit admired by all, Mrs. Tremaine Hildt led a life on her own terms, embracing beauty in all its forms.
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Dorothy “Dee” Tremaine Hildt was educated at the Hathaway-Brown school and the Westover School, participating in the Junior League of Cleveland before attending Smith College. Mrs. Tremaine Hildt’s father, Burton G. Tremaine, Sr., married Emily Hall Tremaine in 1945, heralding the beginning of a prodigious partnership in art that would influence the young Dee Tremaine in her own collecting. Chic, curious and with an appetite for adventure, Mrs. Tremaine Hildt found boundless inspiration in her family’s assemblage of twentieth-century art. Built with intense personal dedication and visionary connoisseurship, the Tremaine Collection grew from a striking corporate collection into the United States’ premier grouping of Modern, Post-War, and Contemporary art.
Inspired by the devotion of Burton G. and Emily Hall Tremaine to fine art, Mrs. Tremaine Hildt came to amass her own impressive collection of work by twentieth-century masters such as Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain and Jasper Johns. Whether at her elegant Palm Beach residence or at the institutions she supported—the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Society of the Four Arts and the Norton Museum, among others—the collector firmly believed in the power of fine art to engage and inspire.
The Tremaine name continues to enjoy tremendous prestige with art historians, curators and collectors, a testament to the quality works of art acquired by the family and to individuals such as Dorothy Tremaine Hildt. With her husband, John Hildt, the collector bestowed her signature enthusiasm for philanthropy and the arts upon her children and grandchildren, generations who will continue to build on Mrs. Tremaine Hildt’s accomplishments at the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and beyond. In her exquisite collection of twentieth century masterworks, Dorothy Tremaine Hildt found the passion for creative thinking that was the hallmark of her life, a legacy in fine art worthy of celebration.
Property from the Collection of Dorothy Tremaine Hildt
Man Ray (1890-1976)
Ce qui manque à nous tous
Details
Man Ray (1890-1976)
Ce qui manque à nous tous
signed, dated, numbered and titled 'Man Ray 1935-63 6/6 ce qui manque à nous tous' (on the pipe stem)
clay pipe with glass sphere
Height: 5½ in. (14 cm.)
Length: 8½ in. (21.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1927
Ce qui manque à nous tous
signed, dated, numbered and titled 'Man Ray 1935-63 6/6 ce qui manque à nous tous' (on the pipe stem)
clay pipe with glass sphere
Height: 5½ in. (14 cm.)
Length: 8½ in. (21.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1927
Provenance
Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York.
Emily and Burton G. Tremaine, Madison, Connecticut (acquired from the above, 1965).
By descent from the above to the late owner, March 1991.
Emily and Burton G. Tremaine, Madison, Connecticut (acquired from the above, 1965).
By descent from the above to the late owner, March 1991.
Literature
J.-H. Martin, B. Hermann and R. Krauss, Man Ray, Objets de mon affection, Paris, 1983, p. 143, no. 39 (another example illustrated, p. 42 and illustrated again on the cover).
Exhibited
Hartford, The Wadsworth Atheneum, The Tremaine Collection, 20th Century Masters, The Spirit of Modernism, February-April 1984, p. 104 (illustrated in color).
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