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Alligator Pears by Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe

Alligator Pears, 1923

Oil on canvas
30.5 x 25.4 cm (12 x 10 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Heritage Auctions, New York (17 Nov 2014)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Nov 17, 2014
Heritage AuctionsNew YorkAmerican Art Signature Auction68041
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Alligator Pears
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

30.5 x 25.4 cm (12 x 10 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

Signed on stretcher verso: O'Keeffe

Provenance

Alfred Stieglitz, New York

Paul Rosenfeld, New York, 1920s

By bequest to Edna Bryner Schwab, literary executrix of the above, New York, 1946

The Downtown Gallery, New York

Harold Goldsmith, New York, 1946

The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1959

Leo Praeger, New York, 1961

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York

Acquired by the present owner from the above, December 1987.

Exhibited

Anderson Galleries, Beverly Hills, California, solo exhibition, 1924; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, "A Selection of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe," July 23-September 6, 1986, no. 17; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts,"Georgia O'Keeffe: Natural Issues, 1918-1924," April 11-July 12, 1992, no. 12; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, displayed on extended loan beginning June 1997; Fondazione Roma Museo, Rome, Italy, and elsewhere, "Georgia O'Keeffe," October 4, 2011-January 22, 2012; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, "Discovering the American Modern 1907-1936: The Maria and Barry King Collection," September 8, 2013-January 5, 2014, no. 81.

Literature

B.B. Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999, p. 226, no. 419 (verso, p. 179, no. 332), illustrated; "Discovering the American Modern 1907-1936: The King Collection," American Art Review, December 2013, pp. 80-87, 127, illustrated; P.S. Cable, Modern American Painting 1907-1936: The Maria and Barry King Collection, exhibition catalogue, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, 2013, pp. 97-98, no. 81, illustrated.