What was the title of Georgia O'Keeffe’s 1932 painting bought 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 Sotheby's in 2014. The price made it the most expensive painting by a female artist sold at auction at that time.

The work depicts a large white jimson weed flower against a pale background. O'Keeffe frequently enlarged flowers so that viewers encountered their curves and structures almost as abstract compositions rather than as small botanical details.

The painting was part of a group of works associated with O'Keeffe's flower subjects. It had been owned by the philanthropist and collector Georgia O'Keeffe herself, who left it to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe; the museum later sold it to support its programs.

The auction record was later surpassed by other works by women artists. That later change does not alter the specific 2014 result, which remains a frequently cited milestone in the market history of modern American art.