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GEORGIA O`KEEFFE (1887-1986)

Lot 28
09.11.2022 19:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 4 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 838980
Lot 28 | GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)

Red Hills with Pedernal, White Clouds

oil on canvas

20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm.)

Painted in 1936





Provenance

Doris Bry, New York.

Private collection, New York (1968).

Doris Bry, New York.

Private collection, Alpine (acquired from the above, circa 1985); sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 21 May 2003, lot 119.

Kippy Stroud, Philadelphia (acquired at the above sale); Estate sale, Christie’s, New York, 19 May 2016, lot 10.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

D. Bry and N. Callaway, Georgia O’Keeffe in the West, New York, 1989, p. 31 (illustrated in color).

B.B. Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1999, vol. I, p. 561, no. 899 (illustrated in color) and vol. II, Appendix III, p. 1128 (illustrated in situ at the 1937-1938 An American Place exhibition, fig. 67).

H. Drohojowska-Philp, Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe, New York, 2004, p. 364.

N.H. Reily, Georgia O’Keeffe, A Private Friendship, Part I: Walking the Sun Prairie Land, Santa Fe, 2007, p. 358.

B.B. Lynes, ed., Georgia O’Keeffe, exh. cat., Milano, 2011, p. 17 (illustrated in color, fig. 5).

J.F. VanVoorst, What’s Great About New Mexico?, Minneapolis, 2015, pp. 14-15 (illustrated).

J. Souter, O’Keeffe, New York, 2016 (illustrated in color).



Exhibited

New York, An American Place, Georgia O’Keeffe: The 14th Annual Exhibition of Paintings with Some Recent O’Keeffe Letters, December 1937-February 1938, no. 24.

Kunsthaus Zürich, Georgia O’Keeffe, October 2003-February 2004, pp. 108 and 194, no. 42 (illustrated in color, p. 108).

Santa Fe, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum; Columbus Museum of Art and Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place, June 2004-May 2005, pp. 98-99 and 131, no. 27 (illustrated in color, p. 99, pl. 42).



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