A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo has become the most expensive work by a Latin American artist ever to sell at auction, fetching $34.9 million in New York on Tuesday.
This article was updated with the final sale price and other details following the auction's conclusion.has become the most expensive work by a Latin American artist ever to sell at auction, fetching $34.9 million in New York on Tuesday.
The auction house behind the sale, Sotheby's, said in a statement that the price tag"places Frida Kahlo center stage among the great titans of art history." The sum also smashed the public auction record for a work by Kahlo of $8 million, set in 2016, the auctioneer said.
Completed in 1949, five years before her death,"Diego y yo" is the artist's final self-portrait of the 1940s.Following her second marriage to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera -- the couple remarried in 1940 after divorcing a year earlier -- Kahlo was influenced by subjects ranging from Aztec and Eastern mythology to medicine and botany. She also depicted her debilitating health issues and her turbulent relationship with Rivera, creating a personal iconography in her work.
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Frida Kahlo Breaks Diego Rivera's RecordFrida Kahlo has set a new record. The Mexican icon's oil painting, 'Diego y yo,' just sold for $34.9 million at a Sotheby's auction on November 16 — a massive sale that marked the most money spent on a piece of art by any Latin American artist.
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