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PHILIPPE HALSMAN | GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Auction Closed

March 5, 05:19 PM GMT

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

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.