What was the name of Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 painting sold for a record $44.4 million in 2014?

Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44.4 million at auction in 2014. The sale made it the most expensive work by a female artist ever sold at auction at that time.

The painting depicts a large white jimson weed flower against a dark background. O'Keeffe frequently enlarged flowers so that viewers had to confront their forms and details directly. Although the image is botanically recognizable, its scale and composition make it function as a modernist abstraction as well as a flower study.

The work was sold by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, which used the proceeds to support its collection and programs. It is often confused with O'Keeffe's Red Canna paintings, another major flower group. The record later changed as other female artists' works achieved higher auction prices, but the 2014 sale remains a landmark in the market history of women artists.