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

A 1940 self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, titled “El sueño (La cama),” could make auction history Thursday at Sotheby’s in New ...

A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become the most valuable work by a female artist sold at auction.

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

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.

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

The Dream (The Bed)” by the Mexican icon surpassed a $44.4 million Georgia O’Keeffe flower that held the top honor for 11 ...

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

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million and became the top-selling ...