What was the title of Georgia O'Keeffe’s 1932 painting of a white flower sold in 2014 for $44.4 million?

Georgia O'Keeffe’s 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44.4 million in 2014.

The work depicts a large white jimsonweed flower against a dark background. Its monumental scale turns a familiar plant into an almost abstract image, a characteristic feature of O'Keeffe’s flower paintings. The painting belonged to the collection of philanthropist David H. Arrington before it was auctioned.

At a Sotheby’s auction in New York in November 2014, the painting sold for $44,405,000. At the time, that was the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by a female artist. The sale drew renewed attention to both O'Keeffe’s market importance and the historic underrepresentation of women in art auctions.

It is often confused with O'Keeffe’s iris and poppy paintings, but the subject here is specifically jimsonweed, also called datura.