Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands

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'''''Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands''''', also known as '''''Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands)''''', is a black and white photograph taken by [[Alfred Stieglitz]] in 1919. It is part of a large group of more than 300 photographs that he took of his then model and future wife, the painter [[Georgia O'Keeffe]], from 1917 to 1937.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3mjx99G Georgia O'Keeffe — Hands, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]</ref>

Stieglitz took several pictures of O'Keeffe hands around 1919, and this is one of the better known. He was interested in exploring the portraiture of his model, without showing her face, but other parts of her body, like her hands, feet and torso.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3fHAeyU Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hands by Alfred Stieglitz, Vintage News Daily, 15 November 2019]</ref> Her hands attracted him particularly because they were the creators of the art that he admired. In this picture, O'Keeffe is dressed in black to a dark background, and does an artistic and dramatic gesture, as she pauses her right hand at the bottom of her left hand, with the fingers in both hands partially bended.

This picture helds the record for the most expensive of the artist ever sold, having reached $1,472,000 at a [[Sotheby's]] [[New York City|New York]] auction, at 14 February 2006.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3dCPVF9 Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands), Sotheby's]</ref>

There are prints of this photograph at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], in [[New York City|New York]], the [[National Gallery of Art]], in [[Washington, D.C.]], the [[Library of Congress]], in [[Washington, D.C.]], the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]], the [[International Museum of Photography and Film]], in [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]], and the [[George Eastman House]], in [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/3dCPVF9 Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands), Sotheby's]</ref>

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[[Category:1919 in art]]
[[Category:1910s photographs]]
[[Category:Black-and-white photographs]]
[[Category:Photography in the United States]]

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