The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed — titled “El sueño (La cama)” or "The Dream (The Bed)” — sold for $54.7 million.

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

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

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

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

Women in Mexico City reacted to an upcoming auction that could set a new record for a Frida Kahlo painting as one of her ...

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

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