GEORGIA O'KEEFE STILL LIFE OIL PAINTING V$34,000
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MEASUREMENTS: 30"WX42"H FRAMED, MINT CONDITION/ "in the style of"Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism".O'Keeffe began creating simplified images of natural things, such as leaves, flowers, and rocks.Inspired by Precisionism, The Green Apple, completed in 1922, depicts her notion of simple, meaningful life.O'Keeffe said that year, "it is only by selection, by elimination, and by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things." Blue and Green Music expresses O'Keeffe's feelings about music through visual art, using bold and subtle colors.O'Keeffe, most famous for her depiction of flowers, made about 200 flower paintings,which by the mid-1920s were large-scale depictions of flowers, as if seen through a magnifying lens, such as Oriental Poppiesand several Red Canna paintings.She painted her first large-scale flower painting, Petunia, No. 2, in 1924 that was first exhibited in 1925. Making magnified depictions of objects created a sense of awe and emotional intensity. On November 20, 2014, O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1 (1932) sold for $44,405,000 in 2014 at auction to Walmart heiress Alice Walton, more than three times the previous world auction record for any female artist./Private collection, no documentation. We offer a 14day money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with your purchase send back for full refund within 14 days.
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GEORGIA O'KEEFE STILL LIFE OIL PAINTING V$34,000
Estimate $25,000 - $34,000
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