What was the title of Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 painting of a flower often identified as a jimson weed?

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

The painting presents a single white jimson weed flower against a dark background, enlarged so that its trumpet-shaped form fills the composition. O'Keeffe often magnified flowers to make viewers examine their structures closely rather than treating them as small decorative objects.

The work became especially famous after it sold at auction in 2014 for $44.4 million, including fees. That price made it the most expensive painting by a female artist sold at auction at the time. The record drew renewed attention to O'Keeffe's floral paintings and to the longstanding underrepresentation of women artists in the market.

Jimson weed is also known as Datura, a poisonous plant. The title is sometimes shortened informally to Jimson Weed, but the auction record and museum references identify the work as Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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