O'Keeffe painting sold for $44.4 million sets record

O'Keeffe painting sold for $44.4 million sets record
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The Georgia O'Keeffe painting "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1" sold for $44.4 million at auction Thursday, setting a record for a piece by a female artist.

The 1932 painting, which hung in the White House from 2002 to 2008, shattered the previous record set by an untitled Joan Mitchell painting that went for $11.9 million. "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1" sold for $1 million in 1994, and was expected to fetch $10 to $15 million this time around. Sotheby's said the painting was sold by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, with the proceeds going to its acquisitions fund.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.