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

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

A 1940 self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m) in New York, making it the most valuable work ...

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

A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million US ($77 million Cdn) at a New York ...

A painting dated back to the 1940s by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7 million at a New York art auction, ...

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m, making it the most expensive work by a ...

" 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.

A surrealist painting by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m) - shattering the auction record for an ...

Kahlo’s haunting 1940 self-portrait, “El sueño (La cama),” had previously sold at Sotheby’s 45 years ago for $51,000.

Frida Kahlo's 'The Dream' (La cama) sold for a record-breaking $54.7 million at Sotheby's, making it the most expensive work ...

The record-breaking multimillion-dollar sale of a Frida Kahlo painting in New York has fueled pride in her native Coyoacán, ...