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 previous female artist auction record and setting a Latin American art milestone.
- 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 self-portrait 'The Dream (The Bed)' was topped at Sotheby’s for $54.6 million, setting a new maximum for a female artist.
A self-portrait of the Mexican artist was sold $54.66 million at Sotheby's auction in New York.
A Frida Kahlo Painting Just Became the Most Expensive Work by a Female Artist Ever Auctioned
"The Dream (The Bed)," a self-portrait created in 1940, sold for $54.7 million. The previous record holder, Georgia O'Keeffe's "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1," went for $44.4 million in 2014
Frida Kahlo Becomes Most Expensive Woman Artist at Auction
Poised to shatter records ahead of its highly anticipated sale, one of Mexican Surrealist Frida Kahlo’s most vulnerable and poignant self-portraits sold for $54.7 million with fees at a Sotheby’s evening sale on Thursday, November 20. Emerging on the market for the first time in 45 years, Kahlo’s “El sueño (La cama)” (1940) eclipsed the artist’s 2021 record by nearly $20 million in just five minutes, and overtook Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Jimson Weed/…
50 million dollars for Frida Kahlo – never was paid for an artist's work. But the art of men is still much more expensive. What's the point?
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.
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