‘Rosie’ Strong-Arms $4.9 Million at Auction
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In all her 78 years, Mary Doyle Keefe had burly arms just once: when Norman Rockwell transformed her into Rosie the Riveter.
The enduring image appeared on a 1943 cover of the Saturday Evening Post, giving an iconic face to the American women who powered the economy during World War II.
The work was auctioned off at Sothebys for $4.9 million, the highest price ever at public auction for a Rockwell painting, said Linda Pero at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass.
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