Georgia O'Keeffe
Autograph Manuscript, Titled In Another Hand "Girards — Morocco"
Found at
Sothebys,
New York
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Juan Hamilton: Passage, Lot 96
5. Mar - 5. Mar 2020
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Juan Hamilton: Passage, Lot 96
5. Mar - 5. Mar 2020
Estimate: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Description
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, TITLED IN ANOTHER HAND "GIRARDS — MOROCCO"
2 1/2 pages on La Mamounia Hotel, Marrakech, "blanchisserie" forms (17 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.), [Marrakech, Morocco, ca. 1974], titled in another hand "Girards — Morocco" on accompanying manila file folder; old folds, one or two minor closed marginal splits, holes to one corner where previously stapled. Typed transcription of text included.
Georgia O'Keeffe on preparing for a trip to Morocco with her longtime friends. "The Girards said they were going to Morocco for a month — did I want to go with them?"
O'Keeffe had been friends with architect Alexander Girard, and his wife, Susan, for a number of years. Having never been before, O'Keeffe longed to see Morocco, and asked Juan Hamilton, whom she had met a few months earlier, to accompany her. "As I don't see very well any more and Juan is my eyes he was going along to help me get around so I wouldn't always be depending on Susan and Sandro...also, he's young with plans in his head and I thought t
Presumably unpublished.
PROVENANCE:
The artist
By descent to the present owner
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, TITLED IN ANOTHER HAND "GIRARDS — MOROCCO"
2 1/2 pages on La Mamounia Hotel, Marrakech, "blanchisserie" forms (17 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.), [Marrakech, Morocco, ca. 1974], titled in another hand "Girards — Morocco" on accompanying manila file folder; old folds, one or two minor closed marginal splits, holes to one corner where previously stapled. Typed transcription of text included.
Georgia O'Keeffe on preparing for a trip to Morocco with her longtime friends. "The Girards said they were going to Morocco for a month — did I want to go with them?"
O'Keeffe had been friends with architect Alexander Girard, and his wife, Susan, for a number of years. Having never been before, O'Keeffe longed to see Morocco, and asked Juan Hamilton, whom she had met a few months earlier, to accompany her. "As I don't see very well any more and Juan is my eyes he was going along to help me get around so I wouldn't always be depending on Susan and Sandro...also, he's young with plans in his head and I thought t
Presumably unpublished.
PROVENANCE:
The artist
By descent to the present owner
Auction result misses estimated price range
This work of art by Georgia O'Keeffe could be acquired at Sothebys in New York in March 2020 for an unexpectedly low price. In the Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Juan Hamilton: Passage auction, the work Autograph Manuscript, Titled In Another Hand "Girards — Morocco" changed hands for USD 2,750.00 (€ 2,493.43) - missing the lower end of the estimate range of USD 3,000.00 – 5,000.00. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Georgia O'Keeffe achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 in November 2014 with an auction result of USD 44,405,000.00 (€ 35,701,077.34).
Auktionsergebnis verfehlt die Schätzpreisspanne
Dieses Kunstwerk von Georgia O'Keeffe konnte im März 2020 bei Sothebys in New York für einen unerwartet niedrigen Preis ersteigert werden. In der Auktion Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Juan Hamilton: Passage wechselte die Arbeit Autograph Manuscript, Titled In Another Hand "Girards — Morocco" für USD 2.750,00 (€ 2.493,43) den Besitzer – und verfehlte damit das untere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne von USD 3.000,00 – 5.000,00. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Georgia O'Keeffe erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 im November 2014 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 44.405.000,00 (€ 35.701.077,34).
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