Which Georgia O'Keeffe painting sold for $44.4 million in 2014, setting a record for the most expensive artwork by a woman?

Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44.4 million in 2014. The large 1932 painting became the most expensive work by a female artist sold at auction at that time.

The painting depicts a white jimson weed flower against a dark background. O'Keeffe enlarged flowers so dramatically that viewers encountered them almost as abstract forms, a feature that made her flower paintings both popular and critically debated.

The 2014 sale took place at Sotheby's in New York. The buyer was the Walmart heiress Alice Walton, who placed the work in the collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas.

The record drew attention to the long-standing underrepresentation of women artists in major art-market rankings. Later sales by other women artists surpassed it, but the auction remains a notable landmark in O'Keeffe's market history.