What was the title of Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 painting sold for a record in 2014?

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

The large-scale work depicts a single white jimson weed flower against a dark background. O'Keeffe often magnified flowers so viewers had to confront their shapes, folds, and tonal contrasts rather than treating them as small decorative objects.

The painting was sold at Sotheby's in New York in November 2014. Its price set a record for the most expensive work by a female artist at auction at that time. The buyer was the Walmart heiress Alice Walton, who placed it in the collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

The title is sometimes shortened to Jimson Weed, but the full title identifies the work as White Flower No. 1. The sale record was later surpassed by works by other women artists, so it describes a 2014 milestone rather than a permanent ranking.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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