Pink Tulip, 1925
Pink Tulip, 1925
Oil on canvas, 31 3/4 x 12 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
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2023.6.1
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Vertical narrow canvas of an abstract section of a pink tulip. The upper quadrant of the picture plane encapsulates a large rounded draping petal shape in gradient shades of pink with an arc of yellow at the bottom of the form. To the left of the petal, cutting on a diagonal of the canvas, is a soft vertical bolt-like rod of blues and green along with ruffled rows of yellow shapes.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
478
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Signed with the initials OK in the artist's star device, titled and dated 1925 (on the original backing board) - Sotheby's New York, November 2023From Catalogue Raisonne:
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. OK {5star} (graphite) 2. "Abstract . . . / by Georgia O'Keeffe / Price [amount scratched out]" (AS, black ink) 3. "Handle with Care! / Keep Clean" (AS, graphite) 4. "Société Anonyme Exhibition / Brooklyn Museum / Will be called / for after exhibition / George Of [ "Will be . . . Of" scratched out]" (AS, graphite) 5. "Abstraction – #77 / by Georgia O'Keeffe – 1925 / Tulip" (AD, AAP3, black ink) 6. "Abstraction – #77 / (1925)" (AD, graphite)
Exhibition History
1926 Brooklyn, no. 267; 1926 New York (Intimate Gallery)?; 1927 New York (Intimate Gallery), as Abstraction No. II?; 1987 Washington, no. 40; 1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe)CREDITS & RIGHTS
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