Which painting by Georgia O'Keeffe became the first artwork by a woman sold for more than $40 million?

Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 became the first artwork by a woman sold for more than $40 million.

The large 1932 painting depicts a white jimson weed flower against a dark background. Its close-up composition magnifies the flower so that the trumpet-shaped petals fill most of the canvas. O'Keeffe repeatedly explored flowers at unusually large scale, encouraging viewers to examine forms that might otherwise be overlooked.

The painting sold at Sotheby's in New York in November 2014 for $44.4 million, including the buyer's premium. That price made it the most expensive work by a female artist at auction at the time. The record drew renewed attention to O'Keeffe's place in twentieth-century American art and to the long-standing imbalance in prices for works by women.

The title is sometimes shortened in casual references, but Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 is the specific 1932 work connected with the record sale.