Contemporary Evening Auction
Contemporary Evening Auction
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
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)