Plant Form-Aloe

Details

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)
Plant Form-Aloe
pencil on paper
10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (26 x 19.1 cm.)
Executed in 1934.

Provenance

The artist.
Marjorie Content, New York.
Washburn Gallery, New York.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 2001.
By descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

New York, Washburn Gallery, Marjorie Content: Photographs from the 1920s-1940s, March 29-April 29, 1995.

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Lot Essay

The original owner of the present work was the photographer Marjorie Content, who was close friends with Georgia O'Keeffe as well as her husband, the photographer and dealer Alfred Stieglitz. In 1933, Content and O'Keeffe traveled to Bermuda together. In 1934—the year Plant Form-Aloe was executed—Content joined O'Keeffe in New Mexico, producing photographs of both the artist and her home at Ghost Ranch.

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