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HILAIRE HILER Théoule.
Gouache on paper, 1929. 380x310 mm; 15x12 1/4 inches. Signed and dated in gouache, lower right recto.
Provenance: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund (A84.1935).
Hiler (1898-1966) was an American artist, psychologist and color theoretician who worked in Europe and United States during the mid-20th century. At home and abroad, he was multifaceted, working as a muralist, jazz musician, costume and set designer, teacher, and author. He was best known for combining his artistic and psychoanalytical training to formulate an original perspective on color. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and he grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. As an expatriate living in Paris in the 1920s, Hiler became friends with the literary crowd of Henry Miller, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, and Anaïs Nin. After returning to the United States, Hiler was named art director of the bathhouse building at the San Francisco Aquatic Park from 1936 to 1939, under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration.
Théoule-sur-Mer, popularly known as Théoule, is a resort village in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France.
