$44m Jimson Weed

Behold the most expensive painting by a female artist ever sold at auction. Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1 by late US artist Georgia O'Keeffe sold for $44.4m (£28.8m) at Sotheby’s New York auction of American Art. The painting was one of three O'Keeffe works put up for auction by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, sold to benefit its Acquisitions Fund (CLICK). Wanna Picasso?