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Georgia O'Keeffe
Slightly Open Clam Shell, 1926
Georgia O'Keeffe
Slightly Open Clam Shell, 1926
Pastel on cardboard, 18 1/2 x 13 inches
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Curtis Galleries, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1997

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Catalogue Raisonné Number

537

Inscriptions

Verso: "#27" (AS, graphite). Backing: 1. "Slightly Open Clam Shell – 26" (graphite) 2. OK {5star} (graphite) 3. IG

Provenance

(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); Private collection, New York, NY, 1958; Descended in family; Christie's, New York, NY, sale no. 8790, lot no. 87, 4 December 1997

Exhibition History

1927 New York (Intimate Gallery), among nos. 1-6, as The Sea-Shell; 1952 New York (Downtown), no. 11; 1987 Washington, no. 66; 1991 New York (Hirschl & Adler), no. 69
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Source System ID

8609