The Ginny Williams Collection Evening Sale

The Ginny Williams Collection Evening Sale

The Ginny Williams Collection

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE | NEW MEXICO LANDSCAPE AND SAND HILLS

Auction Closed

June 29, 11:59 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

1887 - 1986

NEW MEXICO LANDSCAPE AND SAND HILLS


signed Georgia O'Keeffe and dated 1930 on the reverse

oil on canvas

16 by 30 in.

40.6 by 76.2 cm.

[with] An American Place, New York

[with] The Downtown Gallery, New York

Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, New York (acquired from the above in 1931)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (gifted by the above in 1935)

[with] An American Place, New York

The artist (by exchange in 1936)

[with] The Downtown Gallery, New York

Mrs. Elon H. Hooker, New York (acquired from the above in 1946)

Private Collection (by descent)

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired in 1982)

Private Collection, Greenville (acquired from the above in 1982)

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1983)

The Farber Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1984)

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1988)

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1988)

[with] Debra Force Fine Art, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2005)

Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2009

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999, p. 441, no. 725, illustrated

New York, An American Place, Georgia O'Keeffe: 33 New Paintings (New Mexico), December 1931 - February 1932, n.p., among nos. 24-33 (as Landscape near H&M Ranch, toward Abique [sic], N.M.)

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., The American Tradition of Realism, Part II: Paintings and Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, April - May 1983, n.p., no. 18, illustrated

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., American Master Paintings 1830-1984, May 1988, n.p., no. 18

Katonah, New York, The Katonah Gallery, New England—New Mexico: Artistic Encounters, 1910-1940, March-May 1989, n.p., no. 18, illustrated

Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; Columbus Museum of Art; and Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place, June 2004 - May 2005

Jackson Hole, Wyoming, The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Georgia O'Keeffe: The Unexplainable Thing in Nature, July - October 2005

New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe and Other Modernists, October - December 2009


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