What was the title of Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 painting of a white flower that set a major auction record?

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Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1932 painting that set a major auction record was Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1.

The large painting shows a single white jimson weed flower against a pale background. O’Keeffe frequently enlarged flowers so that viewers had to confront their shapes and structures rather than glance at them as small decorative objects. Jimson weed is also known as Datura, a poisonous plant native to parts of the Americas.

In November 2014, the painting sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $44.4 million, including the buyer’s premium. That sale made it the most expensive painting by a female artist at auction at the time. The record was later surpassed by other works, but the sale remains a landmark in the market history of women artists. The title is sometimes shortened, but its canonical title includes both the plant name and the flower-number designation.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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