GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (American, 1887-1986) Alligator Pears, circa 1923 Oil on canvas 12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.4 cm) Sig...

Auction amount: $461,000

Sold: Nov 17, 2014

Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986)

Paintings

Also known as: O'Keefe, Georgia; Stieglitz, Alfred, Mrs.; O'Keeffe, Georgia Totto

Birth Place: Sun Prairie (Dane county, Wisconsin, United States)

Biography:
American painter, trained in Chicago and New York where she came into contact with modern developments in art, as well as non-western traditions and photography. Her husband, the photographer Alfred Steiglitz showed her work yearly until his death in 1946. O'Keeffe is best known for extreme close-up images of abstracted natural forms, such as flowers, animal bones, clouds, and landscapes. From 1929 she spent most of her summers paining in New Mexico, moving there permanently in 1949. In 1971, she learned to be a hand-potter.

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