Georgia O'keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) participated in the invention of an American modernity while fiercely preserving her independence. Throughout the century, she pioneered her own path between figuration and abstraction, modernism and primitivism, plant and mineral, nature and architecture.

This first major monograph in French devoted to Georgia O'Keeffe pays tribute to the originality and singularity of a visionary artist. Following a chronological and thematic analysis, it reveals the mysteries of her creation, her theoretical, cultural and pictorial sources, her influences, and sheds light on the research and places of work, the developments, hesitations and reversals of her work. It presents an iconographic panorama of unprecedented scope, drawn from the more than 2,000 paintings, drawings, charcoals, watercolours and, to a lesser extent, sculptures and ceramics, left by the artist in 70 years of creation.