A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo bought at public sale on Tuesday (November 16) for a record-breaking $34.9 million, the very best value ever paid for a portray by a Latin American artist.
Accomplished in 1949, Kahlo’s “Diego y yo” went below the hammer at Sotheby’s in New York and bought to an unidentified purchaser for a file $34.9 million, together with $3.9 million in charges, the public sale home mentioned.
“This is without doubt one of the most essential works by Kahlo ever to return to public sale and we’re thrilled that it must be at Sotheby’s,” mentioned Oliver Barker, a Sotheby’s auctioneer and senior director as he opened the bidding.
Kahlo, who spent lengthy intervals bed-ridden after a visitors accident in her youth, was the creator of some 200 work, sketches and drawings – primarily self-portraits – during which she reworked her misfortune into works of daring shade and emblematic power.
She attained worldwide fame after her dying in 1954, and after the Seventies rose as a feminist icon.