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A Georgia O'Keeffe Painting Was Buried in a New York Apartment Closet. It Is Going up for Auction
Christie’s says the 1930 work was likely the first in a three-painting series and had been hidden in a Manhattan apartment closet for decades.
- A rare Georgia Keeffe painting discovered in a Manhattan closet after decades of storage is now on display at Christie's, valued between $3 million and $5 million before Tuesday's auction.
- After purchasing the Keeffe painting for $3,800 in 1963, the owner kept it hidden in her closet until around 2022, when she casually mentioned it to her niece during a conversation.
- Tylee Abbott, director of American Art at Christie's, called the Lobo Peak painting "particularly important because of its early date and its representation of the inception point of O'Keeffe's time in the American Southwest."
- Experts believe the 1930 work is the first of three paintings in a series; one resides in the Metropolitan Museum, while the Rockefeller family held the other for many years.
- Family members who requested anonymity discovered the treasure while cleaning the late owner's apartment this year; she had worked with the Foreign Service and lived into her 90s.
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A Georgia O’Keeffe painting was buried in a New York apartment closet. It is going up for auction – WTOP News
NEW YORK (AP) — The painting was buried behind coats and boxes in the closet of a Manhattan apartment for decades. Few if anyone knew about the hidden treasure until the woman in her 90s who lived there nonchalantly told her niece one day, “oh by the way, there’s a Georgia O’Keeffe in the closet.”...
·Chevy Chase, United States
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A Georgia O'Keeffe painting was buried in a New York apartment closet. It is going up for auction
A painting dug out of a New York City closet this year after being stashed away since the 1980s is expected to bring more than $3 million when it goes up for auction this week.
·Detroit, United States
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