Wednesday, November 2, 2011

O’Keeffe and color

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Georgia O’Keeffe, My Autumn, 1929. Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in. Estimate: $2,000,000 – 3,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011

I love the colors in this painting. Funny how one day one thing is very appealing and another day, it’s not. So, who knows whether this will appeal tomorrow, but for today, love it! And, of course, it could be mine. Christie’s is offering it at auction.

The last time I went to the Georgia O’Keeffe museum in Santa Fe, the exhibit Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction was showing. Many of the paintings were monochrome, but still fascinating because of what she did with those subtle colors.

2 comments:

Elaine said...

Is this the real colors of the painting? I have a painting proyect and I've been looking for images of this painting and none of them are the same tone, please help!

Sherri Woodard Coffey said...

Elaine, I really don't any more about this painting than what I've posted. It was in one of the ArtDaily newsletters, I liked it, and wrote about it. I don't think I've ever seen it before. Of course, the problem with viewing images on the computer is that every monitor renders color differently. Maybe you could try to find a print version...