What was Georgia O'Keeffe's highest auction price when Jimson Weed sold in 2014?

Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44.4 million at auction in 2014.

Sotheby's sold the painting in New York on November 20, 2014. The reported price, including the buyer's premium, was $44.4 million. The anonymous buyer was later identified as the Walmart heiress Alice Walton, who placed the work in the collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

The sale set a record for the highest auction price paid for a work by a female artist at that time. It also drew attention to O'Keeffe's flower paintings, which had long been popular but were sometimes discussed more narrowly than her abstractions and New Mexico landscapes.

Auction records can change as later sales occur, so the historical wording matters: $44.4 million was the record established by this 2014 sale, not a permanent all-time record for every later market.