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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The painting by the famed Mexican artist shattered the auction record for an artwork by a woman, as well as for the highest ...

A 1940 self-portrait by Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for a record $54.7 million at Sotheby’s, setting a new high sale for a ...