Georgia O’Keeffe now most expensive female artist ever – AD.nl

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20-11-14 – 23:11 Source: Reuters Georgia O’Keeffe in 1918. © US National Archives / Wikipedia .

The American painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) is today since the most expensive female artist. Her painting Jimson Weed / White Flower No. One was sold at auction in New York for converted more than 35 million, according to US media.

Auction house Sotheby’s had yields less than a third of that amount is estimated. The amount also smashed the previous record by name stood since May Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) with nearly 9.5 million for the work Untitled.

The record painting shows a large white flower in a modern see background. O’Keeffe is seen as the “mother” of American modernism.