Frida Kahlo's record-breaking first self-portrait sold at auction at Sotheby's

For the first time, a work by a Latin American artist has been sold at auction for a record sum: it is Diego y yo, a painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, which was sold at Sotheby ’s for the sum of nearly $35 million, $34,883,000 to be exact.

Estimated at between $30 million and $50 million, the painting is an oil-on-masonite self-portrait that the celebrated artist made in June 1949-the work is in fact dated and signed. In the upper right corner reads the inscription in red: México. Frida Kahlo 1949. Diego y yo, while on the back reads the dedication "para Florence y Sam con el cariño de Frida. México. Junio de 1949.

The peculiarity of this self-portrait is that the artist has depicted on her forehead the portrait of her husband Diego Rivera. A painting of the latter, titled Los rivales, had fetched $9.76 in 2018.

As Sotheby’s auction house makes known in a post, the Frida Kahlo of records was purchased by the Eduardo f. Costantini Collection, a well-known collector who supports Latin American art and artists and founder of Malba, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.

Ph. Credit Sotheby’s

Frida Kahlo's record-breaking first self-portrait sold at auction at Sotheby's

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