Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m to set new auction record for a female artist
by Sian Cain and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#71MF0)
The 1940 painting of Kahlo asleep in bed has surpassed the record set by the $44.4m sale of Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 in 2014
A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (41.8m, A$84.7m) at a New York art auction, setting a new top sale price for a work by any female artist.
El sueno (La cama), or The Dream (The Bed), which depicts Kahlo asleep in a bed with a smiling skeleton wrapped in dynamite on the canopy above her, sold on Thursday night at a Sotheby's auction of surrealist art after four minutes of bidding.
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