Georgia O Keeffe Paintings Sunflower

The white calico flower by georgia o keeffe.

Georgia o keeffe paintings sunflower. In a sunflower for maggie georgia o keeffe used a light background colour which is carefully repeated in the petals and helps to firmly contrast against the flower. Low price guarantee fast shipping free returns and custom framing options on all prints. One of her paintings jimson weed sold for 44 4 million making it the most expensive painting sold of a female artist s work as of.

She featured them in a pair of canvases in 1935 cleveland museum of art. Selected georgia o keeffe paintings jimson weed by georgia o keeffe. The estate of georgia o keeffe and their presence hold all necessary copyrights and licences for all of his paintings and other works.

O keeffe did not paint an extensive series of sunflowers. From artwise georgia o keeffe a sunflower from maggie 1998 offset lithograph 23 31 in. The american artist georgia o keeffe is best known for her close up or large scale flower paintings which she painted from the mid 1920s through the 1950s.

Light iris by georgia o keeffe. She was renowned for her over sized flowers beauteous landscapes of new mexico and plush skyscrapers of new york made between 1925 and 1929. She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2 000 paintings that she made over her career.

In all of the sunflower compositions she featured a single virtually life sized blossom against a colored setting. Georgia o keeffe a famous american painter was regarded as the mother of american modernism because of the unique themes and symbolism her paintings focused upon. The painting black iris from 1926 shows the magnified blossom removed from its natural context manifesting the highly evocative and sensual overtones that are the hallmarks of o keeffe s finest flower paintings.

Combining the artist s personal association with her botanical subject the composition of the painting is at the same time rapturous feminine and deeply modern.