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 ...

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

A deeply intimate self-portrait by Frida Kahlo has shattered the artist’s previous auction record, selling for a monumental ...

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

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

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

Kahlo's paintings have long resonated with audiences for their vivid portrayal of her life experiences and struggles. "El sueño (La cama)" depicts Kahlo asleep in a colonial-style bed, enveloped in a ...

Kahlo's El sueño (La cama) features a hauntingly beautiful scene where the artist is depicted asleep in a carved canopy bed, surrounded by a tangle of vines and a skeleton above her. According to Anna ...

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