Live Auction 20979Modern American Art
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)
Lot 104

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)

Plant Form-Aloe

Closed21 April 2023

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USD 138,600

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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)
Plant Form-Aloe
pencil on paper
10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (26 x 19.1 cm.)
Executed in 1934.

The artist.
Marjorie Content, New York.
Washburn Gallery, New York.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 2001.
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

The original owner of the present work was the photographer Marjorie Content, who was close friends with Georgia O'Keeffe as well as her husband, the photographer and dealer Alfred Stieglitz. In 1933, Content and O'Keeffe traveled to Bermuda together. In 1934—the year Plant Form-Aloe was executed—Content joined O'Keeffe in New Mexico, producing photographs of both the artist and her home at Ghost Ranch.