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Property from a Distinguished Boston Collection

Georgia O'Keeffe

Feather with Bird's Bone

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Boston Collection

Georgia O'Keeffe

1887 - 1986

Feather with Bird's Bone


oil on canvas

20 by 12 in.

50.8 by 30.5 cm.

Executed in 1942. 

The Downtown Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above by 1963)
The Downtown Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1968 by the present owner
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, 1999, no. 1034, p. 650, illustrated
New York, An American Place, Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings - 1942-1943, 1943, no. 3 (as Feathers With a Bird's Bone)
Flint, The Flint Michigan Institute, Realism Revisited: An Exhibition Sponsored by Fisher Body Division, General Motors Corporation, 1966
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Group Show: December, 1967
New York, The Downtown Gallery, 43rd Anniversary Exhibition, 1968, no. 267
Athens, The University of Georgia, Selections from the Downtown Gallery, 1968
Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Gallery Association Purchase Group, 1968