While Cleaning Out Her Aunt's Manhattan Apartment, a Woman Found a Long-Lost Georgia O'Keeffe Painting Buried Beneath Fur Coats in the Closet
Christie's values the 1930 work at $3 million to $5 million after it was hidden in a closet for nearly 40 years.
- A rare Georgia O'Keeffe painting valued between $3 million and $5 million will head to auction on November 17 after being discovered in an East Village apartment closet, where it collected dust for nearly 40 years.
- Betsy discovered the 1930 piece titled 'Near Abiquiu, New Mexico' while arranging her late aunt's affairs after the aunt's death. Her aunt purchased it for $3,800 at The Downtown Gallery in 1963 but hid it after a guest showed unwanted interest.
- Tylee Abbott, head of American Art at Christie's New York, verified the piece using the original 1963 bill of sale and visual analysis. Abbott noted the painting carries a signature from Alfred Stieglitz, O'Keeffe's husband and a famous American photographer.
- Before the November 17 auction, New Yorkers can view the rediscovered masterpiece for free at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan from November 7 through November 17. The public display precedes the 20th Century Evening sale.
- Often called the 'mother of American modernism,' O'Keeffe created this 1930 work during her transformative first year in New Mexico. The piece had remained unlocated since Alfred Stieglitz photographed it at a 1931 gallery exhibition.
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A New York woman hid a $3,800 Georgia O’Keeffe in her closet for 40 years and only told her niece before she died, and now it could sell for millions
A Georgia O’Keeffe painting that spent roughly 40 years in a New York City closet is heading to auction at Christie’s, according to BroBible. The work is titled Near Abiquiu, New Mexico I, dates to 1930, and measures about 10 by 24 inches. Christie’s has scheduled the sale for November 17, and the painting is expected to bring in millions of dollars. The painting belonged to the aunt of the woman who discovered it, who received the piece as a gr…
'There’s a Georgia O’Keefe in the Closet’ – Words that Led to Painting's Joyous Rediscovery
“Oh, by the way, there’s a Georgia O’Keeffe in the closet.” One can only imagine the pause, double-take, or request for clarity which followed this comment, made by a woman’s elderly aunt in the midst of an effort to clean out her East Village apartment. Yet as the woman, who revealed herself only as Betsy, […]
Woman Unearths Georgia O'Keeffe Painting Worth Millions After It Spent 40 Years Sitting In Her Aunt's Closet In New York City
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 […]
A painting by the famous painter Georgia O的Keeffe was found in a closet after 40 years. The work, estimated at several million dollars, was placed under a pile of fur coats. A discovery made by a woman who helped her old aunt to store her apartment. - By storing at her old aunt's house, she discovers a painting by Georgia O的Keeffe estimated at several million dollars (Society Topics).
O'Keeffe Painting Worth Millions Surfaces in Closet
The surprise in one Manhattan closet didn't involve skeletons, but a Georgia O'Keeffe. While cleaning out her elderly aunt's apartment, a woman identified only as Betsy opened an entryway closet and found a 1930 O'Keeffe landscape stashed in its original box behind a row of fur coats—where it had...
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