{"id":212209,"date":"2025-11-21T17:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=212209"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:17:03","slug":"frida-kahlos-self-portrait-sells-for-nearly-55m-breaking-auction-record-for-female-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/212209\/","title":{"rendered":"Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait sells for nearly $55M, breaking auction record for female artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold on Thursday for $54.7 million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed – titled “El sueño (La cama)” or in English, “The Dream (The Bed)” – surpassed the record held by Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Jimson Weed\/White Flower No. 1″, which sold for $44.4 million in 2014.<\/p>\n

The sale at Sotheby’s in New York also topped Kahlo’s own auction record for a work by a Latin American artist. The 1949 painting “Diego and I”, depicting the artist and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, went for $34.9 million in 2021. Her paintings are reported to have sold privately for even more.<\/p>\n

The painting comes from a private collection, whose owner has not been disclosed, and is legally eligible for international sale.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold on Thursday for $54.7 million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction, Euronews writes. The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed – titled “El sueño (La cama)” or in English, “The Dream (The Bed)” – surpassed the record […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":211659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,53,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-culture","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212210,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212209\/revisions\/212210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}