Lot 11
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Georgia O'Keeffe 1887 - 1986

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Description

  • Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Red Canna (Flame-Colored Canna)
  • initialed by the artist with her star device on the backing; also inscribed Red Canna–1924/by Georgia O’Keeffe twice by Alfred Stieglitz on the backing
  • oil on canvas
  • 29 by 18 in.
  • 73.7 by 45.7 cm.
  • Executed in 1924.

Provenance

Alfred Stiegltiz, New York
Flora Stieglitz Straus, New York, 1920 (probably)
The artist, 1953
Doris Bry, New York
Private Collection

Exhibited

New York, Intimate Gallery, Fifty Recent Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, February-March 1926

Literature

Nicholas Callaway, ed., Georgia O'Keeffe:  One Hundred Flowers, New York, 1987, pl. 17, illustrated
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999, no. 476, p. 264, illustrated