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Georgia O'Keeffe

Waterfall, No. 2, Īao Valley

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Georgia O'Keeffe

1887 - 1986

Waterfall, No. 2, Īao Valley


oil on canvas

24 by 20 in.

61 by 50.8 cm.

Executed in 1939. 

The Downtown Gallery, New York
Mrs. Iselin O'Donnell, New York (acquired from the above in 1947)
Sotheby's New York, 13 December 1972, lot 142 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's New York, 21 May 2019, lot 10 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
"Advertising Art Lures Brush of Miss O'Keeffe," New York Herald Tribune, January 21, 1940, p. 10
"One-Man Shows," The New York Times, February 11, 1940, sec. 9, p. 7
Royal Cortissoz, "Three Ladies," New York Herald Tribune, February 11, 1940, sec. 9, p. 9
"Pineapple for Papaya," The Art Digest, vol. 14, no. 10, February 15, 1940, p. 23
Elizabeth McClausland, "Exhibitions in New York," Parnassus, vol. 12, no. 3, March 1940, p. 42
Ronn Ronck, "How Georgia O'Keeffe Conquered Pineapples," The Honolulu Advertiser, October 22, 1981, p. D3
Lisa Mintz Messinger, "Georgia O'Keeffe," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 2, Fall 1984, p. 56, fig. 53, p. 54, illustrated
Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, Albuquerque, 1986, p. 244
Anita Pollitzer, A Woman on Paper: Georgia O'Keeffe, New York, 1988, p. 229
Lisa Mintz Messinger, Georgia O'Keeffe, New York, 1988, pp. 83, 86, fig. 62, illustrated
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, 1999, no. 980, p. 619, illustrated