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Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Georgia O'Keeffe

Leaves of a Plant

Auction Closed

May 14, 01:12 AM GMT

Estimate

8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Georgia O’Keeffe

(1887 - 1986)


Leaves of a Plant

signed Georgia O’Keeffe and inscribed (on the artist’s original backing board)

oil on canvas

40 by 30 in.   

101.6 by 76.2 cm.

Executed in 1942.

Doris Bry, New York

Private Collection, San Antonio (acquired in 1969)

Acquired from the above in 1978 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Honolulu Academy of Arts, Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings of Hawai’i, 1990, fig. 8, p. 20, illustrated

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, 1999, no. 1038, p. 652, illustrated in color

New York, An American Place, Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings—1942-1943, 1943, no. 13

San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1975

Abilene, Texas, First State Bank, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1977

Indiana, South Bend Art Center, Twentieth Century American Masters: An Inaugural Exhibition, 1978, pp. 40-41, illustrated in color (titled Bromeliad)

Denver Art Museum, The First Western States Biennial Exhibition, 1979, p. 4, illustrated in color (titled Bromeliad)

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. and Dallas, Gerald Peters Gallery, Georgia O’Keeffe: Selected Paintings and Works on Paper, 1986, no. 14, n.p., illustrated 

Santa Fe, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Inaugural Exhibition, 1997

New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, O’Keeffe and Other Modernists, 2009