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GEORGIA O`KEEFFE (1887-1986)

Lot 45
09.11.2022 19:00UTC -05:00
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$ 4 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 838976
Lot 45 | GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)

Autumn Leaf II

signed with initials ‘OK’ in the artist’s star device (on the original backing)

oil on canvas

32 x 21 in. (81.3 x 53.3 cm.)

Painted in 1927





Provenance

The Downtown Gallery, New York.

Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, New York (acquired from the above, 1961); sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 25 April 1980, lot 246.

Kennedy Galleries, Inc. and Robert Miller Gallery, Inc., New York (acquired at the above sale).

Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, Inc., New York.

Private collection (acquired from the above, 1984); sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 29 November 2012, lot 10.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

Newsweek, 1965, vol. 66, p. 84 (titled Autumn Leaves).

International Art Market, 1980, vol. 20, p. 190, no. 246 (titled Autumn Leaves No. 2).

B.B. Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1999, vol. I, p. 353, no. 605 (illustrated in color).

H. Drohojowska-Philp, Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe, New York, 2004, p. 278.



Exhibited

New York, The Intimate Gallery, O’Keeffe Exhibition, January-February 1928, no. 29 (titled Autumn Leaf - B).

Tulsa, Philbrook Museum of Art, Georgia O’Keeffe Retrospective Exhibition, October-November 1952.

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Delray Beach, Mayo Hill Galleries, An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe, February-April 1953, no. 6 (titled Autumn Leaves II).

Amherst College, Mead Art Building, 13 Painters 40 Years, May 1956.

New York, The Gallery of Modern Art, The Twenties Revisited, June-September 1965.

Tulsa, Philbrook Museum of Art; Oakland Museum of Art; Baltimore Museum of Art and New York, National Academy of Design, Painters of the Humble Truth: American Still Life Painting, September 1981-July 1982, pp. 266 and 292-293, no. 99 (illustrated, p. 266, fig. 11.11; titled Autumn Leaves No. 2).

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., The American Tradition: Paintings and Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, April-May 1983, p. 17.

Santa Fe, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (on extended loan).



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Artist:Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Art style:Modern art
Genre:Still life
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