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O'KEEFFE, Georgia (1887-1986) Artist An archive of letters t...

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O'KEEFFE, Georgia (1887-1986) Artist . An archive of letters to Edith Evans Asbury (1910-2008), 1957-1979. Comprising 19 autograph letters signed; 5 typed letters signed; 2 autograph postcards signed; 1 large framed Christmas card inscribed and signed; 1 autograph endorsement signed; 1 document signed (all signed "Georgia O'Keeffe," "Georgia," "G.OK" or "G."); 1 autograph manuscript, unsigned (listing the works she wished to show at her Houston and Fort Worth exhibition). Together 58pp. of O'Keeffe letters and documents, 4to and 8vo . Plus some 75 photos of O'Keeffe and her family and friends, taken at her home in Abiquiu, New Mexico. [ALSO WITH:] Correspondence from Asbury and her husband Robert Garst to O'Keeffe, and copies of legal communications between O'Keeffe, Asbury and Sydney Schanberg.
O'KEEFFE, Georgia (1887-1986) Artist . An archive of letters to Edith Evans Asbury (1910-2008), 1957-1979. Comprising 19 autograph letters signed; 5 typed letters signed; 2 autograph postcards signed; 1 large framed Christmas card inscribed and signed; 1 autograph endorsement signed; 1 document signed (all signed "Georgia O'Keeffe," "Georgia," "G.OK" or "G."); 1 autograph manuscript, unsigned (listing the works she wished to show at her Houston and Fort Worth exhibition). Together 58pp. of O'Keeffe letters and documents, 4to and 8vo . Plus some 75 photos of O'Keeffe and her family and friends, taken at her home in Abiquiu, New Mexico. [ALSO WITH:] Correspondence from Asbury and her husband Robert Garst to O'Keeffe, and copies of legal communications between O'Keeffe, Asbury and Sydney Schanberg. "NOW REALLY--MUST YOU TELL ME HOW OLD I AM!... WHEN I AM 100 OR 101 I WILL NOT MIND IF YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT IT." AN EXTENSIVE AND FASCINATING ARCHIVE OF O'KEEFFE CORRESPONDENCE AND PHOTOS, that provides many revealing insights about her personality and her work. Several letters touch on her paintings and exhibitions, and mention artists such as Picasso and Mark Rothko ("one of our very best painters"). THE O'KEEFFE-EVANS ASBURY FRIENDSHIP Georgia O'Keeffe laughed when she read Edith Evans Asbury's 28 March 1957 letter requesting an interview for a piece Asbury wanted to write in The New York Times marking O'Keeffe's 70th birthday. "Now really," O'Keeffe wrote in reply, "must you tell me how old I am! I doubt that I feel any older than you do, and I feel that this making an event of any birthday is utter nonsense.... When I am 100 or 101 I will not mind if you say something about it." She found interviews "silly" and "just something I had to put up with because of the way I made my living. I had to have publicity, whether I liked it or not and it has always really embarrassed me... However, I will say this, your face in the picture you sent me looks as if I might like you better than some of the things your letter makes me feel you are after." She invites Asbury to come out to New Mexico to spend "a week or two" and "see if you want to try to say something about it with the world." When Asbury wrote back with travel plans for a visit, O'Keeffe responds on 11 May that "I have gotten to work in a way that I do not like to be disturbed and nice as you may be I am afraid you will run me crazy with your questions." Nevertheless she gave Asbury the green light to come out for "something resembling a vacation" as long as she didn't "count too much on me." That 10-day visit inaugurated a close friendship that would last 20 years. Several visits followed over the years, with O'Keeffe staying at Asbury's home in Greenwich Village and Asbury returning to Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu. Their letters bridged the gaps, and O'Keeffe genuinely longed for Asbury's company. Several letters contain urgent requests for her to return. O'Keeffe opens up in these letters in a way she rarely did with other correspondents. The wide range of subjects touched upon is remarkable. Below is a summary of the archive's major themes. ON HER PAINTINGS AND EXHIBITIONS On 25 Nov. 1957 she writes "I went to Chicago for a week to see the Picasso show, a couple of days of the week were in Kansas City for the museum there, also friends." 22 December 1960 she regrets the demands on her time, discusses her travels to Bangkok, Tahiti, Fiji, and Hawaii; and speaks with pride and relief at mounting an exhibition of her work: "This odd thing that we carry on about called Xmas will push me around all day and I will not have time..."; "I also had a retrospective show in Worcester, Mass. this fall. I wish you would have seen it. I liked it and I will not do it again. Too hard work." On 2 February 1961 she explains that she cannot stay with Asbury during an upcoming visit to New York in connection with her April exhibition at The Downtown Gallery, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Recent Paintings

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 104
Auktion:
Datum:
04.12.2009
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
4 December 2009, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

O'KEEFFE, Georgia (1887-1986) Artist . An archive of letters to Edith Evans Asbury (1910-2008), 1957-1979. Comprising 19 autograph letters signed; 5 typed letters signed; 2 autograph postcards signed; 1 large framed Christmas card inscribed and signed; 1 autograph endorsement signed; 1 document signed (all signed "Georgia O'Keeffe," "Georgia," "G.OK" or "G."); 1 autograph manuscript, unsigned (listing the works she wished to show at her Houston and Fort Worth exhibition). Together 58pp. of O'Keeffe letters and documents, 4to and 8vo . Plus some 75 photos of O'Keeffe and her family and friends, taken at her home in Abiquiu, New Mexico. [ALSO WITH:] Correspondence from Asbury and her husband Robert Garst to O'Keeffe, and copies of legal communications between O'Keeffe, Asbury and Sydney Schanberg.
O'KEEFFE, Georgia (1887-1986) Artist . An archive of letters to Edith Evans Asbury (1910-2008), 1957-1979. Comprising 19 autograph letters signed; 5 typed letters signed; 2 autograph postcards signed; 1 large framed Christmas card inscribed and signed; 1 autograph endorsement signed; 1 document signed (all signed "Georgia O'Keeffe," "Georgia," "G.OK" or "G."); 1 autograph manuscript, unsigned (listing the works she wished to show at her Houston and Fort Worth exhibition). Together 58pp. of O'Keeffe letters and documents, 4to and 8vo . Plus some 75 photos of O'Keeffe and her family and friends, taken at her home in Abiquiu, New Mexico. [ALSO WITH:] Correspondence from Asbury and her husband Robert Garst to O'Keeffe, and copies of legal communications between O'Keeffe, Asbury and Sydney Schanberg. "NOW REALLY--MUST YOU TELL ME HOW OLD I AM!... WHEN I AM 100 OR 101 I WILL NOT MIND IF YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT IT." AN EXTENSIVE AND FASCINATING ARCHIVE OF O'KEEFFE CORRESPONDENCE AND PHOTOS, that provides many revealing insights about her personality and her work. Several letters touch on her paintings and exhibitions, and mention artists such as Picasso and Mark Rothko ("one of our very best painters"). THE O'KEEFFE-EVANS ASBURY FRIENDSHIP Georgia O'Keeffe laughed when she read Edith Evans Asbury's 28 March 1957 letter requesting an interview for a piece Asbury wanted to write in The New York Times marking O'Keeffe's 70th birthday. "Now really," O'Keeffe wrote in reply, "must you tell me how old I am! I doubt that I feel any older than you do, and I feel that this making an event of any birthday is utter nonsense.... When I am 100 or 101 I will not mind if you say something about it." She found interviews "silly" and "just something I had to put up with because of the way I made my living. I had to have publicity, whether I liked it or not and it has always really embarrassed me... However, I will say this, your face in the picture you sent me looks as if I might like you better than some of the things your letter makes me feel you are after." She invites Asbury to come out to New Mexico to spend "a week or two" and "see if you want to try to say something about it with the world." When Asbury wrote back with travel plans for a visit, O'Keeffe responds on 11 May that "I have gotten to work in a way that I do not like to be disturbed and nice as you may be I am afraid you will run me crazy with your questions." Nevertheless she gave Asbury the green light to come out for "something resembling a vacation" as long as she didn't "count too much on me." That 10-day visit inaugurated a close friendship that would last 20 years. Several visits followed over the years, with O'Keeffe staying at Asbury's home in Greenwich Village and Asbury returning to Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu. Their letters bridged the gaps, and O'Keeffe genuinely longed for Asbury's company. Several letters contain urgent requests for her to return. O'Keeffe opens up in these letters in a way she rarely did with other correspondents. The wide range of subjects touched upon is remarkable. Below is a summary of the archive's major themes. ON HER PAINTINGS AND EXHIBITIONS On 25 Nov. 1957 she writes "I went to Chicago for a week to see the Picasso show, a couple of days of the week were in Kansas City for the museum there, also friends." 22 December 1960 she regrets the demands on her time, discusses her travels to Bangkok, Tahiti, Fiji, and Hawaii; and speaks with pride and relief at mounting an exhibition of her work: "This odd thing that we carry on about called Xmas will push me around all day and I will not have time..."; "I also had a retrospective show in Worcester, Mass. this fall. I wish you would have seen it. I liked it and I will not do it again. Too hard work." On 2 February 1961 she explains that she cannot stay with Asbury during an upcoming visit to New York in connection with her April exhibition at The Downtown Gallery, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Recent Paintings

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 104
Auktion:
Datum:
04.12.2009
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
4 December 2009, New York, Rockefeller Center
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