Description
Property from an American Private Collection
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
1887 - 1986
JONQUILS I
Signed with the initials OK (on the backing board)
Oil on canvas
16 by 22 in.
40.6 by 55.9 cm
Painted in 1936.
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Saleroom Notice
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Robert Miller Gallery, New York (on consignment)
Private Collection (acquired by 1987)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York
Private Collection, Philadelphia (acquired by 1993)
James Reinish & Associates, Inc., New York
Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York
Private Collection, Short Hills, New Jersey (acquired by 2001)
Private Collection, New York (acquired by 2015)
Literature
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Haven, 1999, no. 887, illustrated p. 554
Barbara Buhler Lynes, O’Keeffee’s O’Keeffes, The Artist’s Collection, Milwaukee, 2001, p. 174
Exhibited
New York, An American Place, Georgia O'Keeffe: New Paintings, 1937, no. 6 (titled Jonquils - I)
New York, American Woman's Club, The American Woman's Association Clubhouse, Exhibition of Paintings (1924-1937) by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1937, no. 25
Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville Art Museum, Art in Bloom: Flower as Subject, 1989