so incorporating a skeleton-hand tattoo in a blue rose design is an elegant way to play up the design's spooky factor. Sugar skulls hail from Mexico and are traditionally seen on the Day of the Dead.

Her oil on canvas, ‘Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses (1931)’ (91.4cm x 61cm) was based on a catastrophic drought in 1930 which O’Keeffe witnessed in the Southwest that caused the starvation ...