Which O'Keeffe painting sold for about $44.4 million in 2014, setting an auction record for any female artist?

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

The 1932 painting depicts a large white jimson weed flower against a dark background. It was sold at Sotheby's in New York in November 2014 for $44.405 million, including the buyer's premium. The result set a record for the highest auction price paid for a work by a female artist at that time.

The record attracted attention because O'Keeffe had long been one of the most important figures in American modernism, yet the market had historically undervalued women artists. The title is sometimes shortened to Jimson Weed, but the full title identifies the work precisely. It is also distinct from O'Keeffe's iris and canna paintings, which are among her other famous enlarged-flower compositions.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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