"It's the highest price paid for a woman artist at auction, reported. It overtook the $44.4 million record set in 2014 by Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1. Kahlo's painting landed just shy of its $60 million high estimate, and sailed past her previous auction record of $34.9 million, set in 2021 for her 1949 work Diego y yo. The work was won by Sotheby's executive Anna Di Stasi on behalf of a phone bidder."
"In it, des Cars revealed that she offered to resign on the afternoon of the heist, an offer denied by the Minister of Culture. She also pushed back on claims that she had neglected the museum's security, saying she had helped devise a master plan but that the Louvre's scale and slow-moving bureaucracy meant such changes require multiple stages of review. "This is not a private museum. This is a public museum that needs to submit to every control," she said"
Frida Kahlo's 1940 self-portrait El sueño (La cama) sold for $54.7 million (with fees), establishing the highest auction price for a woman artist and surpassing prior records. The painting fell just short of a $60 million high estimate and exceeded Kahlo's previous auction record; it was consigned by the estate of Selma Ertegun and won by Sotheby's executive Anna Di Stasi on behalf of a phone bidder. Louvre director Laurence des Cars offered to resign after a recent heist but was denied; she defended museum security plans and cited bureaucratic constraints. Dorothy Vogel, influential collector and major National Gallery donor, died at 90.
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