Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz’s Marriage Certificate and Never-Before-Seen Ceramics Are Heading to Auction at Sotheby’s

A stunning array of items belonging to Georgia O’Keeffe and
Alfred Stieglitz, the husband-and-wife duo who defined an era in
the history of American art, will be auctioned off at Sotheby’s
on March 5.

The wide-ranging collection of artworks and objects include
unseen items and personal effect owned by the couple throughout
their life together. The items come to auction as part of the
collection of the artist Juan Hamilton, a friend of O’Keeffe’s.

Included in the sale is an abstract painting by O’Keeffe that
Hamilton inspired. Titled From a Day with
Juan (1977), it carries an estimate of $1.2 million to
$1.8 million. Also on sale will be O’Keeffe’s famous
painting Nature Forms–Gaspé (1932), which has an
estimate of $4 million to $6 million; a rare and (probably)
never-before-seen example of her stoneware pottery, estimated to go
for between $10,000 and $15,000; and works on paper with an
upper estimate of $120,000.

“The selection speaks to the meaningful personal and
professional relationship that O’Keeffe had with Alfred Stieglitz,
the changing face of the New York art scene, as well as the
evolving times in America,” Kayla Carlsen, Sotheby’s head of
American art, said in a statement issued to Artnet News.

Carlsen says Stieglitz’s Georgia O’Keeffe – Hand
and Wheel (1933) in particular “is a perfect example of these
overlapping narratives. Not only is the work stylistically
progressive, but the subject depicts O’Keeffe’s hand on the wheel
of her new vehicle, about to embark on a southwestern-bound trip
leaving her husband Stieglitz behind in New York—a progressive
endeavor for the time.”

The photograph—one of only three known prints of the shot, and
the last one in private hands—carries an estimate of $300,000 to
$500,000.

Works by Hamilton and members of the Stieglitz Circle who
exhibited at his famous 291 art gallery in New York during the
1910s will also be on offer.

In addition to these artworks are ephemera such as O’Keeffe’s
and Stieglitz’s marriage certificate and a 1962 edition of
Ulysses by James Joyce, signed by the painter Marsden
Hartley. There are also examples of writings by O’Keeffe and
pigments she used to paint.

A public preview of the items opens at Sotheby’s New
York on February 26.

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