Rose georgia okeeffe flower paintings. One of her paintings jimson weed sold for 444 million making it the most expensive painting sold of a female artists work as of. Abstraction white rose by georgia okeeffe. Georgia okeeffe was an american artist who is known for her revolutionary paintings and for being the leading figure of the art movement american modernism which started at the turn of the twentieth centuryher most famous artworks are those which provide a dramatically large sensual close up of flowers as if they are being seen through a magnifying lens.
While her work varied between the literal portraits abstractions and landscapes okeeffes work is still most identified by her iconic flower paintings. Light iris by georgia okeeffe. Poppy by georgia okeeffe.
Georgia okeeffe flower paintings okeeffes career was long and varied but the theme for which she will always be most famous is of course flowers it is these that have established her as one of the major figures of american art and also highly influential female artist. Jimson weedwhite flower no. By the early 1920s when okeeffe turned her attention to representational painting she had used flowers as subject matter for almost two decades and had been exposed to advanced photographic techniques for at least half a decade.
Abstraction white rose 1927 by georgia okeeffe click image to view detail. Grey lines with black blue and yellow by georgia okeeffe. In 2014 the georgia okeefe museum sold a floral painting for 44 million dollars at auction setting the record for artwork sold by a female artist.
She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2000 paintings that she made over her career. Autumn leaves by georgia okeeffe.