US EditionFrida Kahlo self-portrait poised to shatter auction records
Frida Kahlo's 1940 self-portrait El sueño (La cama) is estimated at $40–$60 million, potentially surpassing the $44.4 million female auction record, Sotheby's said.
- On Thursday, Sotheby's put a 1940 Kahlo self‑portrait, El sue�o , up for auction in New York, estimating the lot between $40 and $60 million as part of over 100 surrealist works.
- Institutional attention from museums worldwide helped spur collector demand, with more than a dozen exhibitions and a new Kahlo museum opening in Mexico City, plus the Houston retrospective transferring to Tate Modern, London.
- The painting shows Kahlo asleep beneath vines while a skeleton reclines above her; it comes from a private collection and was last publicly exhibited in the late 1990s before Sotheby's London display.
- With a $40–$60 million estimate, El sueño could outstrip Georgia O'Keeffe's $44.4 million 2014 record and surpass Kahlo's $34.9 million 2021 Diego y yo sale.
- Amid a softer art market, the painting's demand underscores enduring interest as surrealist women artists trend among collectors and some Kahlo works sold privately for more.
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"The Dream (The Room)", awarded at $54 million, broke the previous record on Thursday, set by a painting by the American Georgia O的Keeffe, which had reached $44.4 million in 2014.
The result reaffirms the international validity of Kahlo's legacy, whose art continues to generate cultural and economic impact decades after its creation.
The painting ‘The Dream (The Bed)’ has been sold in New York for $54.66 million
This Frida Kahlo self-portrait could shatter auction records
A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo of her asleep in a bed could make history Thursday when it goes on sale by Sotheby’s in New York. With an estimated price of $40 million to $60 million, “El sueño (La cama)” – in English, “The Dream (The Bed)” — may surpass the top price for a work by any female artist when it goes under the hammer. That record currently stands at $44.4 million, paid at Sotheby’s in 2014 for Georgia O’Keef…
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