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

With an estimated price of $40 million to $60 million, “El sueño (La cama)” may surpass the top price for a work by any ...

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

"The Dream (The Bed)," a self-portrait created in 1940, sold for $54.7 million. The previous record holder, Georgia O'Keeffe's "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1," went for $44.4 million in 2014 ...

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

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

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

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

" 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.

Frida Kahlo's painting El sueño (La cama) fetched a record $55 million. This sale highlights the enduring global appeal of ...

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

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 ...