Georgia O'Keeffe – Two Calla Lilies on Pink (1928)

Exhibition poster with the work, Two Calla Lilies on Pink - To kallaliljer på pink baggrund , (1928), by the American artist, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986). At a time when few Europeans had seen O'Keeffe's paintings in person, Louisiana in 2002 presented a selection spanning O'Keeffe's entire production with the exhibition, O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes – Kunsterens Samling. An exhibition that could be seen as Georgia O'Keeffe's artistic self-portrait.

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O'Keeffe's pictures are known to many - as is the myth about her: the aristocratic, independent woman in the New Mexico desert. Her pictures radiate the special persistent concentration that surrounds them. They insist on the emotional power of the simple motif.

When Georgis O'Keeffe paints flowers, she is naturally related to centuries of flower painters. But she is still different. She blows up the flowers. Blows up the bouquet and focuses uninhibitedly on the detail. Macro and micro flow together in a new space of color, rhythm and composition. It is a flower – and yet a painting.

O'Keeffe's pictures are elaborate. She is phenomenally meticulous and her pictures are not spontaneous. She uses sketches and mixes colors endlessly before she goes to the canvas. She wants to arrive at a very specific image. So she works in series. Repeated petals, shells, clouds, branches, leaves, mountains.

For Georgia O'Keeffe, it's about bringing out an emotion. You may not be able to portray the emotion directly, hold it, but you can set it in motion through repetition, like a musical theme.

Dimensions: W: 59.4 x H: 84.1 cm (A1)

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Frame: 12mm
Material: Frame in solid oak and with high-quality acrylic glass.