Which 2014 auctioned Georgia O’Keeffe painting set a record for the most expensive painting by a woman?

Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 set the record for the most expensive painting by a woman when it sold in 2014.

The 1932 painting depicts a large white jimson weed flower against a dark background. At a Sotheby’s auction in New York in November 2014, it sold for $44.4 million, including fees. That price made it the highest auction result for a work by a female artist at the time.

The record drew attention to both O’Keeffe’s market importance and the long-standing gap between prices for male and female artists. The painting had been given by O’Keeffe to the philanthropist and collector Georgia O’Keeffe Museum founder? Actually, it was donated by O’Keeffe to the Museum of Modern Art? The record-setting work was later associated with the philanthropist and collector Anne and? To avoid confusion, the key fact is the auction result and title.

The sale record has since been surpassed by works by other women artists, but the 2014 transaction remains a landmark in O’Keeffe’s career and art-market history.