What was Georgia O'Keeffe's highest-selling painting at auction as of 2014?

Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 was her highest-selling painting at auction as of 2014. Sotheby's sold the 1932 work in New York for $44.4 million, setting a record for the most expensive artwork by a female artist at auction at that time.

The painting shows a large white jimson weed flower against a pale background. O'Keeffe frequently enlarged flowers so that viewers had to look at their forms and structures closely rather than treating them as small decorative objects.

The painting was sold by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, which used the proceeds to support its programs and acquisitions. The sale price is often confused with later auction records by other women artists, because auction rankings change over time.

Its record was significant both for O'Keeffe and for the visibility of women artists in the international art market.