Lot 45 : GEORGIA O'KEEFFE 1887-1986

Georgia O'Keeffe

Auction Location: United States of America - 2006
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Title:

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE 1887-1986

Description:

PATIO NO. 1

measurements
24 by 19 in.

alternate measurements
(70 by 48.3 cm)

signed Georgia O'Keeffe, dated Summer 1940, titled The Patio- No. 1 on the reverse; also inscribed with artist's initials OK in pencil on the reverse

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Estate of the artist, 1986
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1987
Beltexan Galleries, Fort Worth, Texas, 1990
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1997
Hall Galleries, Dallas, Texas
Private Collection, Victoria, Texas, 1997 (acquired from the above)

EXHIBITED

New York, An American Place, Exhibition of Georgia O'Keeffe, January-March 1941, no. 9
Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, Georgia O'Keeffe, January-February 1943, no. 58
Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum; Tokyo, Japan, Seibu Art Museum; Aspen, Colorado, Aspen Art Museum, Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Painting, April 1988-February 1989, no. 29, illustrated p. 70
Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, Georgia O'Keeffe, July-August 1993
London, England, The Lefevre Gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), April-May 1993, no. 16
San Antonio, Texas, McNay Museum of Art, O'Keeffe and Texas, January-April 1998, no. 30, illustrated in color p. 71

LITERATURE

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999, no. 986, p. 622, illustrated in color

NOTE

In 1940, Georgia O'Keeffe purchased her first home, Ranchos de los Burros, in New Mexico. She had been visiting Taos every summer since 1929 but she decided upon the remote village of Abiquiu to settle and set up her studio. Lloyd Goodrich writes, "Near the village of Abiquiu she found an adobe house in the Ghost Ranch, a wild area far in from any road, facing south toward the Pedernal, an old volcanic peak with a flat top, and north toward a range of high sheer rock cliffs" (Georgia O'Keeffe, New York, 1970, p. 21). According to Jan Garden Castro, O'Keeffe's adobe house at Ghost Ranch, "felt more like home than any place she had ever lived" (The Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe, New York, 1985, p. 110). O'Keeffe transformed the residence into her studio, installing large windows and placing a ladder on the side of the house, allowing the artist to climb onto the roof and fully view the majestic mountains and canyons surrounding her. Located on a deserted road away from the main ranch, O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch abode enabled her to paint the imposing views of Pedernal Mountain, the vast desert, and the red-orange cliffs of New Mexico in a highly personal environment.