Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed, White Flower No. 1 sold for $44.4 million at auction in 2014.
The 1932 painting depicts a large white jimson weed flower against a pale background. Sotheby's sold it in New York on November 20, 2014, for $44.4 million including the buyer's premium. The purchase was made by the Walmart heiress Alice Walton for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
The sale set a record for the highest price paid at auction for a work by a female artist at that time. Its fame also increased public attention to O'Keeffe's flower paintings, which had already been important to her reputation for decades.
The figure is sometimes reported as the hammer price rather than the total price. The widely quoted $44.4 million amount includes the buyer's premium, which explains why auction reports may show different numbers.