The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Dry Waterfall

Auction Closed

November 9, 12:13 AM GMT

Estimate

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

Lot Details

Description

Georgia O'Keeffe

(1887 - 1986)


Dry Waterfall

titled and dated 51 (on the original backing board)

oil on canvas

30 by 16 in. 76.2 by 40.6 cm.

Executed in 1951. 

The artist

Acquired directly from the above in November 1985 by the present owner

Doris Bry and Nicholas Calloway, eds., George O'Keeffe: In the West, New York, 1989, pl. 64, p. 91, illustrated in color

Georgia O'Keeffe: Paintings, London, 1994, no. 23, illustrated in color

Martin Filler, "An Artful Oasis," House Beautiful, vol. 140, issue 3, March 1998, pp. 78-79, illustrated in color (in situ)

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, 1999, no. 1226, p. 764, illustrated in color

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe, New York, 2004, p. 445

Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, p. 12, illustrated in color (in installation)

Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Inaugural Exhibition, June 1997 - January 1998

Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; Columbus Museum of Art; and Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place, June 2004 - May 2005, pl. 46, pp. 103, 133, illustrated in color (with incorrect dimensions)

Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, May 2008 - September 2009, pp. 83, 165, illustrated in color

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Remarkable Gathering: The Fisher Landau Family Collection, March - September 2022