A surrealist painting from the 1940s by Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m) - shattering the auction record for an ...

A Frida Kahlo painting has became the most expensive artwork by a woman after it was bought for £41.8 million.

"The Dream (The Bed)," a self-portrait created in 1940, sold for $54.7 million. The previous record holder, Georgia ...

A 1940 self-portrait by Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7 million and made auction history at Sotheby's in New York.

Since opening to the public this fall in Mexico City, a new museum devoted to painter Frida Kahlo has sparked a series of ...

The surrealistic self-portrait was made in 1940, a turbulent year in the Mexican artist’s life as her health and marriage ...

Frida Kahlo made history this week as her haunting 1940 self-portrait, “El sueño (La cama)” sold for US $54.7 million.

Frida Kahlo’s 1940 self-portrait, El Sueño (La Cama), or The Dream (The Bed), has sold for US$54.7 million (£41.4m) at ...

Frida Kahlo’s record-setting $54.7 million sale isn’t a feminist triumph—it’s a symbol of inequality and commodification in ...

" El sueño stands among Frida Kahlo's greatest masterworks — a rare and striking example of her most surrealist impulses," said Anna Di Stasi, Sotheby's head of Latin American art, in a statement.

El sueño (La cama)” by the Mexican artist has become the most valuable work by a female artist sold at auction.

In its catalogue note, Sotheby’s said the painting “offers a spectral meditation on the porous boundary between sleep and ...