The sale at Sotheby's in New York also topped Kahlo's own auction record for a work by a Latin American artist.

A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt became the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction, fetching $236 ...

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

Vivian Warby A Gustav Klimt portrait made history this week when it sold for an astonishing $236.4 million (around R4 billion) at an auction in New York, becoming the most expensive modern artwork ...

A self-portrait by celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said. The ...

The Huntington acquires the Civil War-era Winslow Homer masterwork, "The Sutler's Tent"; Robert Therrien at the Broad; and ...

Barbra Streisand has revealed she "regrets" selling a rare Gustav Klimt painting. Taking to Instagram on Thursday, the ...

The painting of Kahlo asleep in bed surpassed the record held by Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1 which sold ...

The Frida Kahlo self-portrait “El sueño (La cama)” shattered the auction record for a work by a female artist, selling for $55 million at Sotheby’s on Thursday.

Later in the evening, an 18-karat-gold toilet by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana ...