This May, Sotheby's inaugural Online sale of Latin America: Contemporary Art will showcase the work "Made for you" (1963) by Sarah Grilo.

Women artists have long been powerful influencers throughout the most significant art historic movements of the 20th Century. The list is lengthy: from Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington’s vital roles in expanding the Surrealist narrative; Georgia O’Keeffe’s impact on defining the trajectory of American Modernism; to Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler and Agnes Martin’s contributions to Post-War Abstraction. This May, the inaugural Online sale of Latin America: Contemporary Art will showcase the works of two powerhouse women artists: the internationally celebrated German-Venezuelan, Gego, and the relatively little-known Argentine painter, Sarah Grilo.

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Made for you (1963), oil on canvas / Sotheby's Inc., New York 

Grilo’s work will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) exhibition, "Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction", April 15–August 13, 2017

Making Space shines a spotlight on the stunning achievements of women artists between the end of World War II (1945) and the start of the Feminist movement (around 1968). In the postwar era, societal shifts made it possible for larger numbers of women to work professionally as artists, yet their work was often dismissed in the male dominated art world, and few support networks existed for them. Abstraction dominated artistic practice during these years, as many artists working in the aftermath of World War II sought an international language that might transcend national and regional narratives—and for women artists, additionally, those relating to gender.

Add (1965), oil on canvas / Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

Drawn entirely from the Museum’s collection, the exhibition features nearly 100 paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints, textiles, and ceramics by more than 50 artists. Within a trajectory that is at once loosely chronological and synchronous, it includes works that range from the boldly gestural canvases of Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, and Joan Mitchell; the radical geometries by Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, and Gego; and the reductive abstractions of Agnes Martin, Anne Truitt, and Jo Baer; to the fiber weavings of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Sheila Hicks, and Lenore Tawney; and the process-oriented sculptures of Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, and Eva Hesse. The exhibition will also feature many little-known treasures such as collages by Anne Ryan, photographs by Gertrudes Altschul, and recent acquisitions on view for the first time at MoMA by Ruth Asawa, Carol Rama, and Alma Woodsey Thomas.

Organized by Starr Figura, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, and Sarah Hermanson Meister, Curator, Department of Photography, with Hillary Reder, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints.