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