Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands

Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands (1919) by Alfred Stieglitz

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.^[1]

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, often without showing her face, but other parts of her body, like her hands, feet and torso.^[2] 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 and gives the picture a totally dark background,. She 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 Sotheby's New York, at 14 February 2006.^[3]

There are prints of this photograph at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C., the Library of Congress, in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the George Eastman House, in Rochester.^[4]

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