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Georgia O'Keeffe
Head with Broken Pot, 1943
Georgia O'Keeffe
Head with Broken Pot, 1943
Oil on canvas, 16 x 19 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Stéphane Janssen Trust in memory of R. Michael Johns
1996.7.3

Human skull placed inside an upside down broken ceramic black pot. This still life is placed on a reddish brown ground with a blue sky behind.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

1046

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible
Verso: Inaccessible

Provenance

(Doris Bry, New York, N.Y.) Private collection, Washington, D.C., 1975 (Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, N.Mex.) Stéphane Janssen, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1989

Exhibition History

1944 New York (An American Place), no. 17, as Head with Broken Pot
1945 New York (An American Place), no. 17, as Head with Broken Pot
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
2001 Santa Fe (Fine Arts Museum)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Frames of Preference
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) In the American Grain
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Photography of Charles Sheeler)
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