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Georgia O'Keeffe
Shell I, 1928
Georgia O'Keeffe
Shell I, 1928
Oil on canvas, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches
University of New Mexico Art Museum
Private collection, Lakewood, Colorado, 1960s

Black opened shell ( mussel ?), heart shaped, pink coral upper left corner
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

623

Inscriptions

Verso: "Okeeffe" (white paint). Backing: 1. "#17 / 1928 / Shell I" (graphite) 2. "Shell / O'Keeffe Exhibition / 29" [partially obscured by label] (AS, graphite)

Provenance

(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); (Herbert B. Palmer and Company, Beverly Hills, California)

Exhibition History

1929 New York (Intimate Gallery), as Shell No. III?
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Source System ID

8686