
Sunflower
Auction Closed
May 20, 08:59 PM GMT
Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Georgia O'Keeffe
1887 - 1986
Sunflower
oil on board
15 ⅛ by 12 ⅛ in.
38.4 by 30.8 cm.
Executed in 1921.
Elizabeth Stieglitz Davidson, Mamaroneck, New York (acquired as a gift from the artist in the 1920s)
Elizabeth Margery Bodkin, New York (acquired as a gift from the above in 1943)
Irma Rudin, New York (acquired from the above in 1977)
Jacqueline Anhalt Gallery, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1978)
Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles (acquired from the above circa 1979)
John Kluge Morven, Charlottesville, Virginia (acquired from the above in 1979)
Christie's, New York, 1 December 2005, lot 132 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Santa Fe (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Anderson Galleries, Alfred Stieglitz Presents Fifty-One Recent Pictures: Oils, Water-colors, Pastels, Drawings by Georgia O'Keeffe, American, 1924, no. 17, 18, 19 or 20
New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe and Other Modernists, 2009
Colorado, Loveland Museum of Art, Georgia O'Keeffe: Place and Influence, 2014
New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe: East and West, 2017, pp. 6, 14 and 31, pl. 2, illustrated
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Haven, 1999, no. 356, p. 192, illustrated in color