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Georgia O’Keeffe. Calla Lily Turned Away, 1923. Pastel on paper-faced cardboard, 14 x 10 7/8 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Gift of The Burnett Foundation. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. [1997.18.002]
Small vertical pastel of white oval shaped calla lily flower with a green stem and single leaf featured in the center over a greyish-white background. The direction of the flower spirals away from the picture plain, hence suggesting a turning away from the viewer.
O’Keeffe excelled as a pastelist due to her sensitive touch and command of color. This work is among her earliest depictions of flowers, and represents a subject then very much in vogue: the “exotic” calla lily. The title of this work, Calla Lily Turned Away, personifies its subject, evoking what could be perceived as “feminine” modesty. Indeed, Sigmund Freud had assigned both
“male” and “female” qualities to the calla lily, contrasting the “female” petal (depicted in this painting) with the “male” pistil (omitted by the artist).
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