New York: Portrait of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for a record $ 34.9 million in Sotheby, setting a deep benchmark for the most expensive artwork by a Latin American artist.
Sales, on Tuesday night, from oil in 1954 at Masonite’s self-portrait titled “Diego Y Yo” (Diego and I) offered a window into his marriage which flared up with Murina Muralist Diego Rivera.
Her husband was described right above Kahlo’s eyes in the middle of his forehead.
Tear painting was completed by Kahlo in 1949, five years before he died at the age of 47 years.
The artwork was in a personal collection and was acquired by the collection of Eduardo F.
Costantini, a collector who was famous for the old commitment to support Latin America.
Art and artist, and Malba founder, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, a auctioner said in a statement.
With this auction, Kahlo has surpassed the previous record of the most expensive Latin American artwork in the history sold at auction, which has gone to painting by Diego Rivera, whose oil on canvas painting “Los rival” (1931) took $ 9.76 Million in auction by Christie in New York in 2018.
The influential figure and can be recognized in the pop culture of the 20th century, the artist who is now considered a feminist icon, began painting in 1926 when he recovered from a bus accident.
The accident killed him with chronic pain distributed into art.
Kahlo taught himself and looked for a leading painter of Mexico, including Diego Riveria, to teach him.
He married Diego Rivera in 1929 and emigrated to the United States, where he lived between 1930 and 1933.
The last time “Diego and I” sold in Sotheby’s, was in 1990, when it became the first work by a Latin American artist for sell more than $ 1 million.
The value of Kahlo’s painting has increased substantially since the 1980s, when one portrait is sold for $ 85,000.
The previous Kahlo auction record was $ 8 million for a painting entitled, ‘Two naked in the forest, which was sold in 2016.
It was the highest price paid for Latin American artwork until 2018 when Rivera,’ The Rivals’, sold at Christie’s auction house .
For $ 9.76 million, according to Al Jazeera.