US EditionFrida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7 million, setting new record for female artists
Frida Kahlo's 1940 self-portrait sold for $54.7 million at Sotheby’s, surpassing Georgia O’Keeffe’s record and becoming the highest auction price for a female artist.
- A Frida Kahlo self-portrait sold for $54.7 million, setting a new auction record for a female artist at Sotheby’s in New York.
- Before the sale, the painting toured London, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Paris and New York after being valued between $40 million and $60 million and unseen publicly for almost three decades.
- The painting depicts Kahlo lying on a floating bed against a pale blue sky, with curling green vines and a skeleton wired with dynamite above, painted in 1940 during her remarriage to Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky’s assassination.
- The sale reshuffles prior Latin American art records as Kahlo’s Diego y yo drops to third for most valuable female artist works, and Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1 also shifts in ranking.
- Included in the Exquisite Corpus sale, the painting shared the spotlight with over 80 works by René Magritte and Salvador Dalí, while public exhibition audiences formed lines out the door, highlighting Kahlo’s singular place in art history.
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The surrealist self-portrait El Sueño (The Bed), by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, became on Thursday the most expensive work of a woman when auctioned for $54.7 million at Sotheby's in New York.Kahlo thus surpasses the American Georgia O'Keeffe, whose work Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 had so far held the record of the most expensive painting by a woman, sold in 2014 for $44.4 million.The bid took place in the brutalist building The Breuer, of t…
It is a self-portrait that the artist Frida Kahlo shows lying in bed: The painting "El sueño (La cama)" achieved almost 55 million dollars at an auction in New York - as much as no woman's work yet.
A 1940 self-portrait by Frida Kahlo sold himself on Thursday for $54.7 million at an art auction in New York, becoming the highest selling price for a work by any female artist. Kahlo’s painting sleeping in a bed, titled ‘The Dream (The Bed)’, surpassed the record of ‘Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1′ by Georgia O’Keeffe, which was sold in Sotheby’s for $44.4 million in 2014. The highest auction price for a work by Kahlo had previously been $34.9 …
Frida Kahlo painting auctions for B1.77bn, record for woman artist
NEW YORK - A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million (1.77 billion baht) in New York on Thursday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said.
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