New York: a self-portrait of a Mexican artist Frida Kahlo It sold at Sotheby’s for a record $34.9 million, setting an auction benchmark for the most expensive artwork by a Latin American artist.
Oil on Sale, Tuesday Night, 1954 Masonite Self-Portrait The title “Diego Ya Yo” (Diego and I) offers a window into troubled marriage With Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. The husband is depicted in the center of her forehead just above Kahlo’s eyes.
The teardrop painting was completed by Kahlo in 1949, five years before his death at the age of 47. The artwork was in a private collection and Eduardo F. Costantini Collection, a renowned collector with a longstanding commitment to supporting Latin American. Art and artist, and founder of Malba, the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, the auctioneers said in a statement.
With this auction, Kahlo has surpassed the previous record for the most expensive Latin American art in history sold at auction, which went to a painting by Diego Rivera, whose oil on canvas painting “Los Rivales” (1931) Came in for $9.76 million. At an auction by Christie’s in New York in 2018.
An influential and recognizable figure in the twentieth century pop cultureThe artist, now considered a feminist icon, began painting in 1926, when she was recovering from a bus accident. The accident left him in chronic pain which he absorbed in his art.
Kahlo was self-taught and sought out prominent painters from Mexico, including Diego Riveria, to teach him. She married Diego Rivera in 1929 and moved to the United States, where she lived between 1930 and 1933.
The last time “Diego and I” was sold at Sotheby’s was in 1990, when it became the first work by a Latin American artist to sell for over $1 million. value of Kahlo’s painting There has been a substantial increase since the 1980s, when a painting of him sold for $85,000.
Kahlo’s previous auction record was $8m for a painting titled, ‘Two Nudes in a Forest,’ which sold in 2016. It was the highest price paid for Latin American artwork until 2018, when Rivera, ‘The Rivals’, was sold at Christie’s auction house. According to Al Jazeera, for $9.76m.
Oil on Sale, Tuesday Night, 1954 Masonite Self-Portrait The title “Diego Ya Yo” (Diego and I) offers a window into troubled marriage With Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. The husband is depicted in the center of her forehead just above Kahlo’s eyes.
The teardrop painting was completed by Kahlo in 1949, five years before his death at the age of 47. The artwork was in a private collection and Eduardo F. Costantini Collection, a renowned collector with a longstanding commitment to supporting Latin American. Art and artist, and founder of Malba, the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, the auctioneers said in a statement.
With this auction, Kahlo has surpassed the previous record for the most expensive Latin American art in history sold at auction, which went to a painting by Diego Rivera, whose oil on canvas painting “Los Rivales” (1931) Came in for $9.76 million. At an auction by Christie’s in New York in 2018.
An influential and recognizable figure in the twentieth century pop cultureThe artist, now considered a feminist icon, began painting in 1926, when she was recovering from a bus accident. The accident left him in chronic pain which he absorbed in his art.
Kahlo was self-taught and sought out prominent painters from Mexico, including Diego Riveria, to teach him. She married Diego Rivera in 1929 and moved to the United States, where she lived between 1930 and 1933.
The last time “Diego and I” was sold at Sotheby’s was in 1990, when it became the first work by a Latin American artist to sell for over $1 million. value of Kahlo’s painting There has been a substantial increase since the 1980s, when a painting of him sold for $85,000.
Kahlo’s previous auction record was $8m for a painting titled, ‘Two Nudes in a Forest,’ which sold in 2016. It was the highest price paid for Latin American artwork until 2018, when Rivera, ‘The Rivals’, was sold at Christie’s auction house. According to Al Jazeera, for $9.76m.
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