What 1932 Georgia O’Keeffe painting sold for about $44.4 million in 2014?

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

Painted in 1932, the work presents a large white jimson weed flower against a dark background. O’Keeffe often enlarged flowers so that viewers would have to look closely at forms they might otherwise overlook. The painting’s dramatic scale and sharply defined petals are characteristic of her flower paintings.

At a Sotheby’s auction in New York in November 2014, the work sold for $44,405,000, including the buyer’s premium. It became the highest auction price paid for a work by a female artist at that time. The record was later surpassed by works by other women artists, but the sale remains a major milestone in the market history of American modernism. The painting is also known as Jimson Weed, White Flower No. 1, and Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1.