What 2014 auction record did Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed set for a female artist?

Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 set a $44.4 million auction record for a female artist in 2014.

The painting shows a large white jimson weed flower against a pale background. O'Keeffe made it in 1932, enlarging a single flower so that its curves and petals fill much of the composition. The work belonged to the collection of the philanthropist and publisher David A. Bray and was sold at Sotheby's in New York.

The price was widely reported as a record for any artwork by a female artist at auction at that time. It is important to distinguish the auction price from later private sales and from inflation-adjusted comparisons. O'Keeffe's flower paintings had long been popular, but the 2014 result demonstrated their extraordinary market value as well as their central place in twentieth-century American art.