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Georgia O'Keeffe

Calla Lilies on Red

Signed G. O'Keeffe and dated 1928 (on the stretcher); also signed Georgia O'Keeffe and initialed OK, titled White Calla with Green Leaf + Red Background, and dated (on the backing board)

Oil on canvas

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Georgia O'Keeffe
Calla Lilies on Red

Signed G. O'Keeffe and dated 1928 (on the stretcher); also signed Georgia O'Keeffe and initialed OK, titled White Calla with Green Leaf + Red Background, and dated (on the backing board)

Oil on canvas

Provenance

Anita O’Keeffe Young, Newport 

The artist, 1965 (acquired from the above)

Estate of the artist, 1986

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, 1987 (acquired from the above)

Anne Windfohr Marion, Fort Worth, 1987 (acquired from the above)

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Phoenix, 1966 (bequest from the above)

Sold: Sotheby's New York, November 14, 2018, lot 15

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibition

New York, The Intimate Gallery, Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings, 1928, 1929

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans, 1929-30, no. 77

New York, The Downtown Gallery, The O’Keeffe Portfolio: Just Issued by The Knight Publications, Inc., Shown with Six of the Original Paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe, 1937

Moscow, Art in Embassies, 1988-90

Santa Fe, New Mexico, Gerald Peters Gallery; New York, Gerald Peters Gallery and Dallas, Gerald Peters Gallery, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1990-91, illustrated no. 5 

Santa Fe, New Mexico, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico: An Expanding Collection, 1998-99

Santa Fe, New Mexico, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Williamsburg, Virginia, College of William and Mary, Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940, 2002-03, no. 37, illustrated p. 103

London, Tate Modern; Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien and Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Georgia O'Keeffe, 2016-17, no. 106, illustrated p. 117

Literature

B. Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1999, vol. I, no. 628, illustrated p. 369

B. Buhler Lynes, O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection, New York, 2001, p. 173

H. Drohojowska-Philp, Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe, New York, 2004, p. 284