What was the title of Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 flower painting that became the most expensive artwork by a woman at auction in 2014?

Georgia O'Keeffe’s 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 became the most expensive artwork by a woman sold at auction when it fetched $44.4 million in 2014. The large white trumpet flower was based on jimson weed, a plant O'Keeffe encountered at her New Mexico home.

The painting was sold by Sotheby’s in New York, where it set a record for any female artist at auction. Its scale and close-up composition exemplify O'Keeffe’s practice of enlarging flowers until petals become abstract-looking shapes.

The record drew attention to the long-standing market gap between male and female artists. It was surpassed in 2018 by a work by O'Keeffe herself, Jimson Weed’s auction record remaining a landmark in discussions of women’s art and collecting.