US EditionFrida Kahlo Self-Portrait Destroys Auction Record for Work by Female Artist with $54.7 Million Sotheby's Sale
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A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, titled The Dream (The Bed), was sold for $54.6 million on Thursday at an auction in New York by Sotheby’s house. The figure turned this piece into the most expensive work sold in an auction by a woman and a Latin American artist, thus surpassing all previous records. Until now, the record in women’s works was held by Georgia O’Keeffe, whose painting reached $44.4 million in 2014. Kahlo also broke his own previous …
Frida Kahlo self-portrait destroys auction record for work by female artist with $54.7 million Sotheby's sale
The sale also topped Kahlo's own auction record for a work by a Latin American artist. Her paintings are reported to have sold privately for even more.
Intimate Self-Portrait By Frida Kahlo Sets A New Record At Auction
[Image: Flickr] If it feels like a lot of paintings have been breaking records lately, it’s because they have been. Last week, a Klimt masterpiece became the second most expensive painting ever sold at auction. Just a few days later, surrealist painter Frida Kahlo shattered the auction record for an artwork by a woman. A few days ago, “El sueño (La cama)” – which translates to “The dream (The bed)” – by renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, was s…
The painting “The Dream (The Bed)” by artist Frida Kahlo made history, after being auctioned at Sotheby’s house at $54.7 million, which made Kahlo the best paid artist in history, after surpassing the painting “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1”, by Georgia O’Keeffe, sold in 2014 at $44.4 million. The particular painting was painted in 1940 and was in the hands of a private collector, who was sold by Kahlo herself shortly after it was created, deta…
Frida Kahlo’s 1940 self-portrait, ‘The Dream (The Bed)’, rose in New York for 54.7 million dollars, setting a new record for a female artist. In the work, Frida appears asleep in a floating bed, with a skeleton on top, a powerful symbol between life, death and personal pain. Moreover, that price exceeds not only her own previous brand, which was 34.9 million by “Diego and I,” but also any other work sold by an artist woman. This sale is not only…
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