Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale

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Property from an American Private Collection

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE | JONQUILS I

Auction Closed

October 29, 01:50 AM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

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.

Please note this lot is subject to an irrevocable bid

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)

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


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