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Frida Kahlo's Masterpiece Set to Break Auction Records

11/10/2025

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Frida Kahlo's "El sueño (La cama)" will be auctioned November 20 in New York, becoming the most expensive work by a female or Latin American artist.
Created in 1940, the painting reflects Kahlo's surrealist influences and themes of life and death.
Kahlo holds the second-highest auction record for a woman with "Diego y yo," which sold for $34.9 million in 2021.
The overall record remains Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" at $450.3 million.

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Frida Kahlo's "El sueño (La cama)" will be auctioned November 20 in New York, becoming the most expensive work by a female or Latin American artist.
Created in 1940, the painting reflects Kahlo's surrealist influences and themes of life and death.
Kahlo holds the second-highest auction record for a woman with "Diego y yo," which sold for $34.9 million in 2021.
The overall record remains Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" at $450.3 million.