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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 18, 2021 | Phillips | New York | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 9 | $****** - ****** | Crab’s Claw Ginger Hawaii |
paintings
48.3 x 40.6 cm (19 x 16 in)
oil on canvas
signed, titled and dated “Crabs Claw Ginger / Hawaii 1939 / Georgia O’Keeffe” on the reverse
The Dole Pineapple Company, New York (commissioned from the artist in 1939)
(with Harold Diamond, New York, 1976)
Mr. and Mrs. N. Rosenwald, New York, by 1976
(with Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, 1976)
Private Collection, Toledo, 1976
(with Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, 1987)
Thurston Twigg-Smith, Sun Valley and Honolulu (acquired from the above, 1987)
Sharon Twigg-Smith (by descent from the above, 2016)
Gift from the above to the present owner
New York, An American Place, Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Oils and Pastels , February 3 - March 17, 1940, no. 6 (titled as Halakonia-Crabs Claw Ginger )
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Business Buys American Art , March 17 - April 24, 1960, no. 48, p. 32 (illustrated; titled as Heliconia-Crabs Claw Ginger )
Phoenix Art Museum; Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art; Otsu, Seibu Hall; Aspen Art Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe: Selected Paintings , April 15, 1988 - February 12, 1989, no. 27, pp. 66, 104 (illustrated, p. 67; titled as Halakonia-Crabs Claw Ginger )
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings of Hawai'i , March 22 - May 6, 1990, no. 8, pp. 17, 31-32, 70 (illustrated, p. 34; titled as Heliconia-Crabs Claw Ginger ; Dole Pineapple Advertisement illustrated, fig. 6, p. 18)
The New York Botanical Garden; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai’i , May 19, 2018 - February 24, 2019, no. 19, pp. 19, 20, 128, 130 (illustrated, p. 131 and on the frontispiece; titled as Heliconia, Crabs Claw Ginger ; Dole Pineapple Juice advertisement illustrated, fig. 8, p. 20)
"Advertising Art Lures Brush of Miss O'Keeffe," New York Herald Tribune , January 31, 1940, p. 10
"Pineapple for Papaya," Time , February 12, 1940, p. 9
"Georgia O'Keeffe Finally Painted That Pineapple," Honolulu Star-Bulletin , February 22, 1940, p. 9
Elizabeth McCausland, "Exhibitions in New York," Parnassus , no. 3, March 1940, p. 42
"Hospitable Hawaii cannot send you its abundance of flowers...," The Saturday Evening Post , April 13, 1940, p. 115 (Dole Pineapple Juice advertisement illustrated)
McCall’s , vol. LXVII, no. 8, May 1940, p. 82 (Dole Pineapple Juice advertisement illustrated)
"Hospitable Hawaii cannot send you its abundance of flowers...," Vogue , February 1, 1941, p. 58 (Dole Pineapple Juice advertisement illustrated)
Art Directors Club of New York, Twentieth Annual of Advertising Art , New York, 1941, p. 59 (illustrated; Dole Pineapple Juice advertisement illustrated, p. 58)
F.A. Mercer, "The Twentieth Annual of Advertising Art," Art and Industry , no. 192, June 1942, p. 164 (illustrated)
Russell Lynes, "Suitable for Framing," Harper's Magazine , no. 1149, February 1946, p. 163
John D. Morse, "Americans Abroad," Magazine of Art , no. 1, January 1947, p. 25 (illustrated; titled as Bird of Paradise )
Russell Lynes, The Tastemakers , New York, 1955, p. 294 (titled as Hawaiian mock-bird-of-paradise flower )
"Island Firms Honored," Honolulu Star-Bulletin , April 17, 1960, p. 8 (illustrated; titled as Heliconia )
Ronn Ronck, "How Georgia O'Keeffe conquered pineapples," The Honolulu Advertiser , October 22, 1981, pp. D1, D3
Sue Davidson Lowe, Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography , New York, 1983, p. 356
Karl K. Ichida, "Beauty and the Businessman: Corporate Support for the Visual Arts in Hawaii," Eastwest Fine Arts Supplement and Gallery Guide , Winter 1984, p. 36
F. Bradley Lynch, "Ayer gets a taste of O'Keeffe," Advertising Age , no. 25, April 7, 1986, p. 60 (Dole Pineapple Advertisement illustrated)
Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe , Albuquerque, 1986, pp. 243-244
Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life , New York, 1989, p. 427
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné , vol. II, New Haven, 1999, no. 963, p. 608 (illustrated)
William L. Hamilton, “O’Keeffe’s Paradise, Lost and Found,” The New York Times , May 25, 2018, section C, p. 13 (illustrated)
signed, titled and dated “Crabs Claw Ginger / Hawaii 1939 / Georgia O’Keeffe” on the reverse
oil on canvas
19 x 16 in. (48.3 x 40.6 cm)
Painted in 1939.
