PHILIPPE HALSMAN | GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
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March 5, 05:19 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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PHILIPPE HALSMAN
1906 - 1979
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
mounted, credited Photograph by Halsman, signed Georgia O'Keeffe, and annotated Kindly return to Georgia O'Keeffe - Room 1710. 509 Madison by O'Keeffe in pencil on the mount, and with a Return to Times stamp and annotation in ink on the reverse
gelatin silver print
12 by 9 ⅝ inches
(30.5 by 24.4 cm)
Executed in 1948.
Georgia O’Keeffe, Abiquiu, New Mexico
By descent to the present owner
cf. 'The Southwest: Sun and Scenery Attract New Colonists,' LIFE, vol. 26, no. 11, 14 March 1949, p. 67
cf. Yvonne Halsman, Halsman at Work: Philippe Halsman and Yvonne Halsman, New York, 1989, p. 73
Susan Danly, Georgia O’Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity, New Haven, Connecticut, 2008, cover and p. 87, illu⛄stra𒐪ted
Wanda M. Corn, Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern, New York, 2018, frontispiece and p. 178, illustra♓ted
Philippe Halsman took this photograph while visiting Georgia O'Keeffe at her Abiquiu ranch in 1948. Another image from the same sitting illustrated 'The Southwest: Sun and Scenery Attract New Colonists,' a photographic essay published in the March 1949 issue of LIFE magazine.