Which 2014 auctioned Georgia O'Keeffe painting became the most expensive work by a female artist?

Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 became the most expensive work by a female artist at auction in 2014.

The 1932 painting sold at Sotheby's in New York on November 20, 2014, for $44.4 million, including the buyer's premium. The work shows a large white jimson weed flower against a dark background, using the close-up scale associated with O'Keeffe's flower paintings.

The buyer was Walmart heiress Alice Walton, who later displayed the painting at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The sale drew attention to the long-standing gap between prices for male and female artists.

The auction record has since been surpassed by other works by women, so the distinction belongs specifically to the 2014 sale, not permanently to the painting.