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Georgia O'Keeffe
Brown and Tan Leaves, 1928
Georgia O'Keeffe
Brown and Tan Leaves, 1928
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
Private Collection
Gerald and Kathleen Peters, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1987

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Catalogue Raisonné Number

641

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. OK {5star} (graphite) 2. "509 Madison Ave. N. Y. City" (AIC label, black ink) 3. "Brown & Tan Leaves – / 1928 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" [all inscription words in oval] (AS, black crayon) 4. AAP2 5. AAP9

Provenance

(An American Place, New York, NY); Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, Newport, Rhode Island, 1943; Estate of Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, 1985; Robert R. Young Foundation, Cinncinati, Ohio, 1985; Sotheby's, New York, NY, sale no. 5658, lot no. 4, 3 December 1987

Exhibition History

1929 New York (Intimate Gallery), as Faded and Black Leaves; 1933 New York (An American Place), no. 20, as Autumn Leaves?; 1935 New York (An American Place), no. 11, as Autumn Leaves; 1943 Chicago, no. 24; 1946 New York (MOMA – Retro), no. 31; 1966 Fort Worth; 1970 New York (Whitney), no. 58; 1993 London (Hayward), no. 51
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Source System ID

8702