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{ SOTHEBY'S AUCTION } Kahlo sells for $54.7mn in record for female artist
Hindustan Times Gurugram
|November 22, 2025
PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 1932 O'KEEFFE PAINTING FOR $44.4MN
NEW YORK: 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 sale of Kahlo’s 1940 artwork, titled “El sueno (La cama)” —which translates to “The dream (The bed)” — broke the previous record set by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, whose 1932 painting “Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1" sold for $44.4 million in 2014. Kahlo’s painting is “the most valuable work by a woman artist ever sold at auction,” Sotheby's said in a post on social media platform X.
This story is from the November 22, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Gurugram.
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