According to "Georgia O'Keeffe painting sets auction record for female artist," the surprising sale, as Will Compertz describes it, of a major work by artist Georgia O'Keeffe, although well below the records held by men, has set a new record price for a painting by a female artist (2014).
Although I think other modern artists are better, I have long admired the work of O'Keeffe. Her flowers, however delicate in reality, come across as strong and powerful, whilst remaining representationally accurate. Nonja could never produce an O'Keeffe!
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| O'Keeffe, G. (1932) Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1 |
In a hundred years, it will still be appreciated, along with Picasso and Rembrandt, and probably Francis Bacon, whose Three Studies of Lucien Freud the article cites as being the current world record holder, having sold last year for more than three times the price of O'Keeffe's $44.4 million flowers. I would probably have gone for the Bacon, too, but not at $142 million: has anyone ever matched Picasso's genius?
And hopefully someone else will follow up the stories on the latest horrific shooting by gun carrying cops in the US.
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ReplyDeleteI alway admire people who have own opinions on artworks and buy them on the base of own opinions becase most of artworks are expensive than I expect. So, I cannot dare to buy an artwork. Sometimes I think that I can buy a photo copy of a famous painting just follwing general opinion, but I have some hesitation of unreasonable follwings. An aesthetic ability seems to be innate.
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