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

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

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

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

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.

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

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