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# $44M O'Keeffe Painting More Than Triples Auction Record for Woman Artist
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/44m-okeeffe-painting-more-than-triples-auction-record-for-woman-artist/
- Published: 2014-11-20T18:12:44.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:16:21.000Z
- Description: Hot on the heels of a $1.5 billion art auction week, a painting by Georgia O'Keeffe broke the record for the most expensive work by a female artist sold at auction this morning.
- Author: Jillian Steinhauer
- Tags: In Brief, Auctions, Gender, Georgia O'Keeffe, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![Georgia O’Keeffe, "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1" (1932), oil on canvas, 48 x 40 in (121.9 x 101.6 cm) (© 2014 The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York, image courtesy Sotheby's)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/11/9229okeeffe-jimsonweed.jpg)

Georgia O’Keeffe, “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1” (1932), oil on canvas, 48 x 40 in (121.9 x 101.6 cm) (© 2014 The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society \[ARS\], New York, image courtesy Sotheby’s)

Hot on the heels of a [$1.5 billion art auction week](https://hyperallergic.com/making-sense-of-nycs-1-5-billion-art-auction-week/), a painting by Georgia O’Keeffe broke the record for the most expensive work by a female artist sold at auction this morning. “[Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1](http://www.sothebys.com/content/sothebys/en/news-video/videos/2014/11/american-icon-georgia-okeeffee-jimson-weed.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)” (1932) brought in $44,405,000 at Sotheby’s as part of an [American Art auction](http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2014/american-art-n09229.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), and was sold on behalf of Santa Fe’s [Georgia O’Keeffe Museum](http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com), which had two other works on offer today as well. One of those, “Untitled (Skunk Cabbage)” (c. 1927), brought in a comparatively meager $941,000, while the other, “On the Old Santa Fe Road” (1930–31), raised $5 million. All of the proceeds from those sales will [go towards the museum’s acquisition fund](http://www.abqjournal.com/461164/news/santa-fes-georgia-okeeffe-museum-selling-iconic-works.html?ref=hyperallergic.com).

The price of the exuberant “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1” is more than three times the previous auction record for a work by a female artist, which was the $11.9 million paid for Joan Mitchell’s “Untitled” (1960) at Christie’s earlier this year. It’s also more than seven times O’Keeffe’s previous record ($6.2 million). It doesn’t, however, come close to the world auction record, held, naturally, by a male artist: $142.4 million [paid for](http://hyperallergic.com/93246/francis-bacon-triptych-breaks-world-auction-record-at-142-4m/) Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” around this time last year.

Here, based on our research, are the top 10 lots by women artists sold at auction:

- Georgia O’Keeffe, “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1” (1932), $44.4 million, Sotheby’s 2014
- Joan Mitchell, “Untitled” (1960), $11.9 million, Christie’s 2014
- Natalia Goncharova, “Les Fleurs” (c. 1912), £5.5 million / $10.86 million, Christie’s 2008
- Louise Bourgeois, “Spider” (1996), $10.7 million, Christie’s 2011
- Natalia Goncharova, “Espagnole” (c. 1915), £6.4 million / $10.25 million, Christie’s 2010
- Natalia Goncharova, “Picking apples” (c. 1909), £4.9 million / $9.78 million, Christie’s 2007
- Joan Mitchell, “Untitled” (c. 1960), $9.3 million, Sotheby’s 2011
- Joan Mitchell, “The 14th of July” (c. 1956), $7.1 million, Christie’s 2013
- Louise Bourgeois, “Spider I” (1995), $7.1 million, Sotheby’s 2014
- Joan Mitchell, “Salut Sally” (1970), $7 million, Christie’s 2012

**Correction:** *This list originally failed to include works by Natalia Goncharova and Louise Bourgeois. It has been corrected.*