Georgia O'Keeffe – Torso

[1] Stieglitz took dozens of pictures of O'Keeffe's body, including her hands and her nude torso.

The photograph depicts her naked torso, seen from below, with her arms only partially visible and without showing her head.

The Torso, with its uplifted arms and muscular thighs, has a sculptoric quality that seems influenced by Auguste Rodin, whose work Stieglitz knew well and had shown at the Photo-Secession.

[2] The Torso was in the Stieglitz exhibition at the Anderson Galleries in New York City, where he presented pictures of several parts of the body of O'Keeffe, and which had a particular impact.

[3] A print of this picture sold for $1,360,000 at Sotheby's New York, on 14 February 2006, making it the second most expensive price reached by a Stieglitz photograph.