Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the Museé d’Orsay, in Paris. There are prints of Torso at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Art Institute of Chicago, the J. to Speicher was photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who, never having met O'Keeffe, described the portrait as a swell head. Art market Ī print of this picture sold for $1,360,000 at Sotheby's New York, on 14 February 2006, making it the second most expensive price reached by a Stieglitz photograph. Herbert Seligmann wrote that "Hands, feet, hands and breasts, torsos, all parts and attitudes of the human body seen with a passion of revelation, produced an astonishing effect on the multitudes who wandered in and out of the rooms". Mark Levitch Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918, printed 1924/1937, gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1980.70. The Torso was in the Stieglitz exhibition at the Anderson Galleries in New York, where he presented pictures of several parts of the body of O'Keeffe, and which had a particular impact. The Torso, with its uplifted arms and muscular thighs, has a sculptoric quality that seems influenced by Auguste Rodin, whose work Stieglitz knew well and had shown at the Photo-Secession. The Handwritten Love of Georgia OKeeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. The photograph depicts her naked torso, seen from below, with her arms only partially visible and without showing her head. Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), a child of German Jewish immigrants to the US, was a pioneering American photographer instrumental in making photography an accepted art form and authentic American art. While Stieglitz’s parents and siblings spent their summers at the lakeside villa, Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe stayed at a farmhouse on the estate. Credit Line: Gift of Georgia O'Keeffe, through the generosity of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation and Jennifer and Joseph Duke, 1997. Dimensions: 11.7 x 9 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.) Classification: Photographs. Stieglitz took dozens of pictures of O'Keeffe's body, including her hands and her nude torso. In the late 1880s, Alfred Stieglitz’s father bought a large property on Lake George in upstate New York, a popular resort area for upper-class New Yorkers. Artist: Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 18641946 New York) Date: 1918. It is one of the more than 300 photographs that he took of his future wife, the painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Sale N10332VIEW RESULTSSothebys is pleased to presentAlfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Juan Hamilton: Passage, an auction dedicated to 100+ works emerging from the collection of artist Juan Hamilton, friend and confidante of Georgia OKeeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe - Torso, also known as Georgia O'Keeffe - Nude, is a black and white photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1918. 1918 Stieglitz b&w photograph Georgia O'Keeffe - Torso (1918) by Alfred Stieglitz
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