What was the title of Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 painting that became her most expensive work sold at auction in 2014?
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Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1
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Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1
Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 became her most expensive work sold at auction in 2014.
The painting presents a single large white jimson weed flower against a pale background. O'Keeffe enlarged flowers so viewers had to confront their structures, a strategy that helped make her flower paintings some of the most recognizable images in American modernism.
At a Sotheby's auction in New York on November 20, 2014, the work sold for $44.4 million, including the buyer's premium. That price set an auction record for any artwork by a female artist at the time, not merely a record for O'Keeffe.
The title is sometimes shortened to Jimson Weed, but the full title identifies the flower and its sequence. It is also sometimes incorrectly described as a rose or lily; the subject is jimson weed, a plant in the nightshade family.
Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026