Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44.4 million in 2014.
The 1932 painting depicts a large white jimson weed flower against a pale background. At a Sotheby's auction in New York in November 2014, it sold for $44.4 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 buyer was the Walmart heiress Alice Walton, who acquired the painting for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The sale drew attention to both O'Keeffe's market importance and the historical underrepresentation of women artists in auction records.
The figure is sometimes quoted without clarifying that it includes the buyer's premium. The reported auction total is $44.4 million, while the hammer price before fees was lower.