O'Keeffe painting sells for $44.4 mn, new record for female artist
American Georgia O'Keeffe's "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1" has been sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York for $44.4 million, a new record for a female artist.
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New York: American Georgia O'Keeffe's "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1" has been sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York for $44.4 million, a new record for a female artist.
The sale price easily smashed the previous female auction record of $11.9 million for an untitled abstract by American abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell.
The "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1" oil on canvas was one of three paintings from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico -- the artist's place of death -- that were put up for auction Thursday.
The auction record for a male painter is Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud", which sold last year for $142.4 million.