KAHLO OIL SELLS FOR A RECORD $34.9 MILLION

Nov 17, 2021

By Andy Johnson

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A Frida Kahlo painting, completed five years before her death, has sold in New York for almost $35-million.

The oil, called “Diego and I” is now the most valuable work of Latin American art ever sold at auction.

The painting is one of Kahlo’s final self-portraits and an example of the unsettling intimacy that has attracted collectors to her paintings.

The work also offers a window into her turbulent marriage to the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera who died in 1957 at the age of 70.

Kahlo died in 1954 at the age of 47.

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