Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from a Distinguished American Collection
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