The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)

New Mexico--Near Taos

Price realised USD 2,652,500
Estimate
USD 2,000,000 – USD 3,000,000
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Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)

New Mexico--Near Taos

Price realised USD 2,652,500
Closed: 9 May 2018
Price realised USD 2,652,500
Closed: 9 May 2018
Details
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
New Mexico--Near Taos
oil on canvas laid down on board
17 ¾ x 23 7/8 in. (45.1 x 60.7 cm.)
Painted in 1929.
Provenance
The artist.
The Downtown Gallery, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Gitterman, Jr., New York.
The Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, New York.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 20th Century American Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture: The Edith Gregor Halpert Collection (The Downtown Gallery), 14 March 1973, lot 67, sold by the above.
Acquired by the late owners from the above.
Literature
S. Reich, "The Halpert Sale, A Personal View," American Art Review, vol. I, September-October 1973, pp. 77, 81, illustrated.
R. Ellsworth, et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Arts of Asia and Neighboring Cultures, vol. III, New York, 1993, pp. 110-11, no. 53, illustrated.
B.B. Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999, p. 410, no. 682, illustrated.
Exhibited
Valparaiso, Indiana, Sloan Gallery of American Art, January 1962.
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, American Landscape: A Changing Frontier, In Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Park Service, April 28-June 19, 1966, fig. 7, illustrated.
Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Art Center, Paintings by American Masters: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, September 14-October 19, 1966, p. 15, illustrated.
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Group Show with Morris Broderson, November-December 1966.
Storrs, Connecticut, University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Edith Halpert and The Downtown Gallery, May 25-September 1, 1968, no. 18, illustrated.
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Edith Gregor Halpert Memorial Exhibition, April 7-June 25, 1972, no. 20.
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