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Lot Essay
This painting will be included in the forthcoming Jean Hélion Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by the Jean Hélion Association.
Eileen Josten Lowe, the first owner of Chapellerie à l'oeillet, worked for Peggy Guggenheim after graduating from college, traveling with the Baroness Hilla von Rebay on behalf of the Museum of Nonobjective Art in the late 1940s. It was during these travels that she met Hélion, who was married to Guggenheim’s daughter Pegeen, and from then on followed in her parents' footsteps as an art collector. She and her husband Dr. Charles Lowe collected work from mid-century and beyond, and owned paintings by various 20th century artists including Hans Hoffmann, Karel Appel, Alexej von Jawlensky, Helen Frankenthaler and Sam Francis.
Eileen Josten Lowe, the first owner of Chapellerie à l'oeillet, worked for Peggy Guggenheim after graduating from college, traveling with the Baroness Hilla von Rebay on behalf of the Museum of Nonobjective Art in the late 1940s. It was during these travels that she met Hélion, who was married to Guggenheim’s daughter Pegeen, and from then on followed in her parents' footsteps as an art collector. She and her husband Dr. Charles Lowe collected work from mid-century and beyond, and owned paintings by various 20th century artists including Hans Hoffmann, Karel Appel, Alexej von Jawlensky, Helen Frankenthaler and Sam Francis.