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, surpassing Georgia O'Keeffe's record and setting a new high for Latin American art, Sotheby's reported.
- 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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A self-portrait by the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a record for a work ever signed by the artist, surpassing the previous most expensive artwork at auction.
A self-portrait of Mexican woman Frida Kahlo rose on Thursday in New York for $54.6 million, making it the most expensive painting sold so far by a woman and a Latin American artist, reported the Sotheby’s house. The painting titled "The Dream (The Bed)" of 1940, surpassed the record held by the American Georgia O’Keeffe with a painting that reached the sum of $44.4 million in 2014 The price reached on Thursday is also a historic maximum for a w…
A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo sold at auction in New York for a record €47.3 million. It is the most expensive artwork ever sold by a woman.
The painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) became this Thursday the most quoted female artist at auction with the sale of the painting The Dream (The Bed), sold by the Sotheby's house in New York at 54.7 million dollars, just over a billion pesos. The Mexican woman broke the record that was set in the same auctioneer for the American Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) in 2014 by Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, which reached 44.4 million dollars. She also bro…
A self-portrait of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was sold $54.66 million on Thursday, November 20, at an auction by Sotheby's in New York, becoming the most expensive painting made by a painter.
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