Georgia O’Keeffe was one of the most notable and prolific American artists of the 20st century, and her paintings have routinely sold for millions of dollars. That will likely be the case with one that’s about to hit the auction block, which was discovered by the niece of a woman who kept it stashed in her closet in an apartment in New York City since the 1980s.
With apologies to Mary Cassatt, it’s hard to think of a single female painter hailing from the United States who’s held in higher regard than Georgia O’Keeffe, who was born in Wisconsin but made a name for herself with the modernist works that were largely inspired by the landscape of New Mexico, where she primarily resided from the 1930s until her death at the age of 98 in 1986.
O’Keeffe produced more than 2,000 pieces of work during her lifetime, and her paintings can be found hanging alongside those of other celebrated artists in notable galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and other notable institutions in the United States and beyond…