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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 23 | $****** - ****** | SHELL (SHELL IV, THE SHELL, SHELL I) |
paintings
24.1 x 33 cm (9.49 x 12.99 in)
oil on canvas
Downtown Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York, 1952
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1990
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1997
New York, An American Place, Georgia O'Keeffe: The 14th Annual Exhibition of Paintings With Some Recent O'Keeffe Letters, December 1937-February 1938, no. 6 (as Shell IV)
Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, The Artist's Vision, February-March 1952, no. 57
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Six American Modernists—Marsden Hartley, Gaston Lachaise, Elie Nadelman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, John Storrs, November 1991-January 1992, no. 65 (as Shell No. 1)
Santa Fe, New Mexico and New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe: Floral Works and Small Paintings, May-August 1995 (as Shell No. 1)
Jan Garden Castro, The Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe, New York, 1985, illustrated p. 168 (as Shell I, 1927)
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999, vol. I, no. 918, p. 571, illustrated
oil on canvas
9 1/2 by 13 inches
(24.1 by 33 cm)
Painted in 1937.
