– Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait, Diego y yo, will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s New York where it is expected to fetch as much as $50m, and shatter the record for the most valuable work of Latin American art sold at auction.
Tuesday’s auction heralds Sotheby’s recent expansion to include greater representation of underrepresented artists, notably women artists. The auction house says Kahlo’s work encompasses “raw emotive power” with Diego y yo capturing “an inner restlessness and distress”.
Diego y yo (Diego and I) depicts Kahlo’s tumultuous second marriage to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Completed in 1949, the painting is Kahlo’s final fully realised bust self-portrait before she died in 1954 at the age of 47.
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