Frida Kahlo’s ‘The Dream (The Bed)’ Could Shatter Auction Records
Frida Kahlo’s 1940 painting El sueño (La cama) — or The Dream (The Bed) — is set to go up for auction on Nov. 20 in New York, carrying an estimated price tag of $40 million to $60 million, potentially making it the most…
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About Frida Kahlo
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. Her 1940 self-portrait titled The Dream holds the record for the most expensive work by a female artist ever auctioned, at $54.7 million.
Everything about Frida Kahlo →- Occupation
- painter, artist
- Citizenship
- Mexico
- Born
- July 6, 1907
- Died
- July 13, 1954, 1954
- Website
- http://www.fkahlo.com/