GEORGIA O`KEEFFE (1887-1986)

Lot 41
19.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 41 | GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)
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$ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)
Lake George Autumn
oil on canvas
16 x 27 in. (40.6 x 68.6 cm.)
Painted in 1922.




Provenance

Alfred Stieglitz, New York.
Flora Stieglitz Straus (niece of the above).
Ann Straus Gertler (daughter of the above).
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2010.



Literature

B.B. Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999, Appendix II p. 1102, no. 32; Appendix III, p. 1113, fig. 18, illustrated in exhibition photograph.
W.C. Agee, L. Kachur, Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection, London, 2013, pp. 11, 156-57, 235, 237, 267, fig. 12, illustrated (as Lake George—Autumn).
E. Pochoda, “Freedom and the abstract truth: Jan and Marica Vilcek's collection of early American modernist art completes their journey from Bratislava to New York,” The Magazine Antiques, May/June 2013, pp. 95-6, illustrated (as Lake George—Autumn).
J. McKinley, “Before the Desert, a Greener Side,” New York Times, August 11, 2013, AR18, illustrated as slide 4 in online edition (as Lake George, Autumn).
T. Fitzpatrick, et al., When Modern was Contemporary: Selections from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection, Purchase, New York, 2014, p. 164, fig. 1, illustrated (as Lake George—Autumn).
J.D. Watts Jr., “Arts Scene: Philbrook Museum of Art to present 'Masterworks of American Modernism,' opening Sunday,” Tulsa World, February 8, 2015.
J.D. Watts Jr., “Modern masterworks: Philbrook exhibit brings American masters to Tulsa,” Tulsa World, February 12, 2015.
M. Abatemarco, “Assimilation Through Art: The Modernist Collection of Marica and Jan Vilcek,” Pasatiempo, September 25, 2015, p. 37, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, Anderson Galleries, O'Keeffe Exhibition, 1923.
New York, Terry Dintenfass, Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography, December 4, 1982-January 6, 1983.
New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe and Other Modernists, October 29-December 18, 2009.
Glens Falls, New York, The Hyde Collection; Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George, June 15, 2013-May 11, 2014, pp. 128, 196, no. 16, illustrated (as Lake George—Autumn).
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Philbrook Museum of Art; Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum; Santa Fe, New Mexico, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection, February 8, 2015-January 10, 2016.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, January-April 2016, on extended loan.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum of Art; Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art, Rural Modern: American Art Beyond the City, October 29, 2016-May 7, 2017, pp. 70, 131, 192, pl. 22, illustrated (as Lake George—Autumn).
New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe: East and West, October 26-December 15, 2017, pp. 6, 17, pl. 5, illustrated.
Paris, France, Le Centre Pompidou; Basel, Switzerland Fondation Beyeler, Georgia O'Keeffe, September 8-December 6, 2021; January 23-May 22, 2023, pp. 110-11, 266, illustrated (as Lake George—Autumn).
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