Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Georgia O'Keeffe

Pelvis

Auction Closed

November 16, 02:02 AM GMT

Estimate

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

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Georgia O'Keeffe

1887 - 1986


Pelvis

oil on canvas

16 by 12 in. 40.6 by 30.5 cm.

Executed in 1943. 

Maria Chabot, Alcalde, New Mexico (acquired as a gift from the artist in November 1948)

The artist (acquired from the above in 1960)

Doris Bry, New York (acquired from the above in 1969)

Terry Dintenfass Inc., New York

Acquired from the above in June 1977 by the present owner 

Charles Henri Ford, ed., View, vol. IV, no. 2, Summer 1944, p. 41, illustrated in color (on the cover)

Patricia Frantz Kery, Great Magazine Covers of the World, New York, 1982, no. 16, p. 15, illustrated in color

Charles Henry Ford, ed., View: Parade of the Avant-Garde, New York, 1991, p. 134, illustrated in color

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, 1999, no. 1047, p. 657, illustrated in color

Barbara Buhler Lynes and Ann Paden, eds., Maria Chabot - Georgia O'Keeffe: Correspondence, 1941-1949, Santa Fe, 2003, pl. 3, pp. 172, 472, illustrated in color 

Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York, 2016, pp. 49, 219, illustrated in color

Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, pp. 20, 45, 417, illustrated in color (titled Pelvis IV (Pelvis Front))

New York, An American Place, Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings - 1943, January - March 1944, no. 1, n.p. (titled Pelvis - Front)