Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Juan Hamilton: Passage
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Juan Hamilton: Passage
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March 5, 05:19 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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PHILIPPE HALSMAN
1906 - 1979
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
mounted, credited Photograph by Halsman, signed Georgia O'Keeffe, and annotated Kindly return to Georgia O'Keeffe - Room 1710. 509 Madison by O'Keeffe in pencil on the mount, and with a Return to Times stamp and annotation in ink on the reverse
gelatin silver print
12 by 9 ⅝ inches
(30.5 by 24.4 cm)
Executed in 1948.
Georgia O’Keeffe, Abiquiu, New Mexico
By descent to the present owner
cf. 'The Southwest: Sun and Scenery Attract New Colonists,' LIFE, vol. 26, no. 11, 14 March 1949, p. 67
cf. Yvonne Halsman, Halsman at Work: Philippe Halsman and Yvonne Halsman, New York, 1989, p. 73
Susan Danly, Georgia O’Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity, New Haven, Connecticut, 2008, cover and p. 87, illustrated
Wanda M. Corn, Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern, New York, 2018, frontispiece and p. 178, illustrated
Philippe Halsman took this photograph while visiting Georgia O'Keeffe at her Abiquiu ranch in 1948. Another image from the same sitting illustrated 'The Southwest: Sun and Scenery Attract New Colonists,' a photographic essay published in the March 1949 issue of LIFE magazine.