Live Auction 2142Fine American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
Lot 6 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF BARONESS MARCELLA KORFF

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)

Untitled (Grey Wash Forms)

Closed5 March 2009

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Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
Untitled (Grey Wash Forms)
signed and inscribed 'For Mary-I love you/-Georgia' (on the reverse)
pencil on paper
6 x 9 in. (15.2 x 22.9 cm.)
Executed in 1936.

The artist.
Mary Callery, New York, gift from the above, 1943.
By descent to the later owner from the above, 1978.

Specialist note

This drawing relates to the artist's full-scale oil painting Grey Wash Forms, painted in 1936 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
The inscription on the reverse of the drawing refers to sculptor Mary Callery, a close friend of the artist. Callery created a sculpture portrait of O'Keeffe in the 1940s.