A Georgia O'Keeffe painting from the New Mexico museum that's named after her is going on the auction block in New York City.
"Canna Red and Orange" is estimated to bring $1.2 million to $1.8 million at Christie’s on Wednesday.
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe is selling the 1926 oil depicting a colorful canna flower. It was originally owned by the
Downtown Gallery in New York. In 1960, it was sold into a private collection and donated to the museum in 1997.
The museum says the proceeds will allow it to acquire works important to its holdings.
O’Keeffe permanently moved to New Mexico from New York in 1949. She died in 1986. She is known as one of the most original painters America has produced.
Her vivid visual vocabulary – sensuous flowers, bleached bones against read sky and earth – shows her as a master of the ecstatic eye and she has had a lasting influence on American art in this century.
She represents an essential part of the American Dream – the individual’s quest.
"Canna Red and Orange".
