Modern Evening Auction

Modern Evening Auction

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Property from a Distinguished West Coast Collection

Georgia O'Keeffe

Bleeding Heart I

Live auction begins in:

07:58:30

May 13, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished West Coast Collection

Georgia O’Keeffe

(1887 - 1986)


Bleeding Heart I

oil on panel

9 by 12 in.   22.9 by 30.5 cm.

Executed in 1938.

The Downtown Gallery, New York

Private Collection, Scarsdale (acquired from the above in 1961)

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe (acquired from the above in 1987)

Private Collection, Nashville (acquired from the above in 1987)

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1997)

Acquired in 2021 by the present owner

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Haven, 1999, no. 950, p. 594, illustrated in color

New York, An American Place, Georgia O'Keeffe: Exhibition of Oils and Pastels, 1939, no. 2 

Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe: Forty Years of Her Art, 1960, no. 86 

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. and Dallas, Gerald Peters Gallery, Georgia O’Keeffe: Selected Paintings and Works on Paper, 1986, no. 8, n.p., illustrated

Phoenix Art Museum; Tokyo, Seibu Museum; Osaka, Seibu Museum and Aspen Art Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe: Selected Paintings, 1988-89, no. 26, pp. 64-65, illustrated in color

New York and Santa Fe, Gerald Peters Gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe: Floral Works and Small Paintings, 1995