GEORGIA O’KEEFFE (ca. late-1950s) Set of 3 photos

Three vintage original black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photos: 4 x 5″ (10 x 13 cm), 7 x 10″ (17 x 25 cm) and 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm). Fine.

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Her most famous and iconic piece is Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, painted in 1932. This painting is a close-up, large-scale representation of a white flower, and it was the most expensive painting by a female artist ever sold at auction. She is quoted as saying “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from a single thing that I wanted to do.” Blue is said to have been her favorite color.

All appear to be from the late-1950s. One is credited to D. Bry and is of an outdoor location. One shows the artist in front of her painting of the skeleton of an animal, and the third is of her sitting in a car looking through a hole in a piece of cheese, stamped by Michael A. Vaccaro and Heller Gallery and hand-dated 1959.