"Frida Kahlo's self-portrait "El Sueno," or "The Dream," set a new record at Sotheby's on Thursday by becoming the most expensive work by a female artist ever auctioned. The 1940 painting, showing Kahlo asleep in a bed floating among clouds, sold for for $54.7 million (47 million), surpassing the $44.4 million paid at Sotheby's in 2014 for Georgia O'Keeffe's "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1.""
"The piece was one of the few Kahlo works still in private hands outside Mexico, where her art is protected as a national monument. Works within Mexico cannot be sold abroad. This painting, from an undisclosed private collection, was legally eligible for international sale. More to follow"
Frida Kahlo's 1940 self-portrait El Sueño (The Dream) depicts Kahlo asleep in a bed floating among clouds and sold at Sotheby's for $54.7 million (47 million). The sale surpassed the previous female-artist auction record of $44.4 million set in 2014 for Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1. The painting was among the few Kahlo works remaining in private hands outside Mexico, where Kahlo's art is protected as a national monument and works in Mexico cannot be sold abroad. The painting came from an undisclosed private collection and was legally eligible for international sale.
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