What was Georgia O'Keeffe's highest-selling painting at auction, sold for $44.4 million in 2014?

Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44.4 million at auction in 2014. The monumental flower painting was created in 1932 and became one of the most valuable works by a female artist ever sold at auction.

The painting depicts a large white jimson weed blossom against a dark background. O'Keeffe often enlarged flowers so that viewers would notice their forms and details rather than pass them quickly. She rejected the idea that her flower paintings should automatically be interpreted as sexual symbols.

The work was sold by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum at Sotheby's in New York. The price exceeded the previous auction record for a work by a female artist. That record was later surpassed, but the sale remains a major milestone in the public and financial history of O'Keeffe's art.