Dark Iris No. III, 1927
Dark Iris No. III, 1927
Pastel on paper, 20 1/4 x 9 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.7
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Vertical extreme close-up pastel of the delicate inner folds of an iris flower. Palette of subtle grey-purples. Mostly abstract rendition of iris petals closing in on one another, with the darkest area in the lower right corner.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
602
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Verso: "Georgia O'Keeffe -- May 1927" (black ink) Backing: "Dark Iris, No. 3-1927 / by Georgia O'Keeffe / Handle with / CARE / Pastel]" (AS, IG, black ink)Provenance
(The Intimate Gallery, New York, N.Y.) Paul Rosenfeld, New York, N.Y., ca. 1928 Mrs. Burdon Emmett, New York, N.Y., loan, by 1946 Estate of Paul Rosenfeld, 1946 [. . .] Henry C. Fleming, New York, N.Y., unknown Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., New York, N.Y., unknown M. Knoedler, New York, N.Y., by 1968 The artist, purchase, 1969 Estate of the artist, 1986 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, N.Mex., 1993 The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996 (partial share)Exhibition History
1928 New York (Intimate Gallery--O'Keeffe), no. 22, as Dark Iris No. 31987 Washington, no. 47
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Poetry of Things)
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Four Painters / Skunk Cabbage)
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Debating American Modernism
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Living Artists: Sherrie Levine)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and the Camera)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modernists in NM)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Beyond Our Shores/Jimson Weed Returns)
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Abstraction; all venues
2011 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Robert Henri)
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Abstract Nature
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