“MY FIRST MEMORY IS OF THE BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT— LIGHT ALL AROUND”: DELUXE FIRST EDITION OF GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, ONE OF ONLY 200 COPIES SIGNED BY HER, WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF COLOR PLATES

O'KEEFFE, Georgia. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York: Viking, (1976). Large folio (12 by 16 inches), original black cloth; separate paper portfolio of 16 color plates. Housed in original black cloth clamshell box. $7500.

Deluxe signed limited first edition, number 173 of only 200 copies signed by O’Keeffe, of this superbly illustrated collection of paintings by O’Keeffe. With an additional suite of 16 color plates, issued only with this deluxe edition.

The 108 vivid full-color plates reproduced in this beautiful production were all selected by O'Keeffe for inclusion in this collection. Her accompanying text constitutes a poetic, thoughtful autobiography about her early fascination with color and line, the influences on her work, and her growth as an artist. The additional suite of 16 color plates is enclosed in a paper folder with a mounted black-and-white photograph of O'Keeffe in her rugged Southwest landscape. Freitag 9193.

Fine condition.