Summary • Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait, El sueño (La cama), sold for a record-breaking $55 million USD at Sotheby’s

Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait, El sueño (La cama), sold for a record-breaking $55 million USD at Sotheby’s • The 1940 painting, showing Kahlo in bed with a skeleton, reflects a period of the artist’s chronic pain and marital turmoil

The 1940 painting, showing Kahlo in bed with a skeleton, reflects a period of the artist’s chronic pain and marital turmoil • The sale set a new auction record for a Latin American artist

The sale set a new auction record for a Latin American artist

A deeply intimate self-portrait by Frida Kahlo has shattered the artist’s previous auction record, selling for a monumental $55 million USD at Sotheby’s in Manhattan. The piece, titled "El sueño

See Full Page