GEORGIA O`KEEFFE (1887-1986)

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ID 949556
Lot 38 | GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)

White Calico Rose

signed and dated 'Georgia O'Keeffe -1930-' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.4 cm.)

Painted in 1930





Provenance

An American Place, New York.

Dr. Leo and Edith Mayer, New York (acquired from the above, 1931).

Else and Lloyd McKean, Scarsdale, New York (bequest from the above, 1972).

Washburn Gallery, New York (1980).

Edward R. Downe, Jr., New York (acquired from the above, 1980).

Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 5 December 1985, lot 237A.

A. Alfred and Judith Taubman, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (acquired at the above sale).

Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2001.



Literature

"The Art Galleries," New Yorker Magazine, 31 January 1931 (titled White Rose).

Art in America, vol. 69, 1981, p. 4 (illustrated in color; titledThe White Rose, New Mexico).

R. Reif, “Peale Portrait Brings Record Price at Auction” in New York Times, 6 December 1985, p. 28 (titled White Rose, New Mexico).

L.S. Gelb, D. Saltman, “10 O’Keeffes to National Gallery” in Washington Post, 14 March 1986 (titled White Rose, New Mexico).

N. Callaway, “Georgia O’Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers” in Artspace: Southwestern Contemporary Arts Quarterly, Winter 1987-1988, pp. 27-28 (illustrated in color; titled White Rose, New Mexico).

N. Calloway, Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers, New York, 1989, no. 99 (illustrated in color; titled White Rose, New Mexico).

R. Looney, O’Keeffe and Me: A Treasured Friendship, Niwot, Colorado, 1995, p. 53 (titled White Rose, New Mexico).

B.B. Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1999, vol. I, p. 439, no. 722 (illustrated in color in situ at the 1931 An American Place exhibition, vol. II, p. 1121, fig. 44).

H. Drohojowska-Philp, Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe, New York, 2004, p. 324.

V. Norwood and J. Monk, eds., The Desert Is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women’s Writing and Art, New Haven, 1987, pp. 210 and 212, fig. 10.7 (illustrated; titled White Rose, New Mexico).

S. Greenough, ed., My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, New Haven, Connecticut, 2011, p. 632n432.

N.J. Scott, Critical Lives: Georgia O’Keeffe, London, 2015, p. 231n13.



Exhibited

New York, An American Place, Georgia O’Keeffe: Recent Paintings, New Mexico, New York, Etc.–Etc., January-February 1931.

Munich, Germany, Haus der Kunst, Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980 (American Painting 1930-1980), November 1981-January 1982, p. 22, no. 2 (illustrated; titled The White Rose, New Mexico).

Santa Fe, New Mexico, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Inaugural Exhibition, July 1997-April 1998 (titled White Rose, New Mexico).

Santa Fe, New Mexico, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe and Andy Warhol: Flowers of Distinction, May 2005-January 2006, pp. 44 and 75, no. 16 (illustrated in color).

Santa Fe, New Mexico, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (on loan, 2021-2022).



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