What was Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1932 painting of a white jimson weed titled?

Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1932 painting of a white jimson weed is titled Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1.

The painting presents a single large white jimson weed flower against a dark background. O’Keeffe often enlarged flowers so that viewers had to confront their shapes, folds, and tonal changes at close range rather than seeing them as small decorative objects.

Jimson weed is also called Datura or moonflower, and the plant is poisonous. O’Keeffe encountered the plant in the Southwest and used its trumpet-shaped blossoms in several works. The painting’s title includes both the plant name and its place within her white-flower series.

The work is frequently associated with O’Keeffe’s record-setting art-market prices. In 2014 it sold at Sotheby’s for $44.4 million, then the highest price paid for a painting by a female artist. That auction result is separate from the painting’s creation date and title.