One Hundred Flowers:

Georgia O'Keeffe & Nicholas Callaway (ed.)

Phaidon, Oxford, 1987.

Folio hardcover, 100pp., colour illustrations and afterword. Printed acetate band with title and author's name over illustrated dustwrapper; small segment missing from band on front and light random spotting down spinal edge. Page edges lightly toned with light spotting. Very good to near fine. The publication of One Hundred Flowers marks the centennial of O'Keeffe's birth and accompanied a touring retrospective exhibition of her work. Nicholas Callaway spent many years tracking down these flower paintings and sketches many of which were housed in private collections. More than half the represented works are oil paintings, some watercolours, some pastels as well as charcoal sketches. A large portion of Georgia O'Keeffe's works were flower paintings (over a quarter) - masterpieces of organic form with their outrageous colour contrasts and overblown sizes, and their erotic associations - glorious metaphors of the unfolding inner self.

Price: $200