The bidding lasted only minutes, but its impact rippled far beyond the auction room. Frida Kahlo's "El sueño (La cama)" sold Thursday, Nov. 20, for $54.7 million at Sotheby's, setting a new auction ...

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m, making it the most expensive work by a female artist to sell at auction. The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed, ...

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 Thursday. The sale “shows just how far we have come, ...

An arresting self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, featuring the artist slumbering beneath a tangle of vines in a carved canopy bed with a skeleton reclining above her, set records at a Sotheby's auction on ...

Director Carla Gutierrez on intentionally crafting a documentary about the artist that engages with her writing and her art in revelatory ways. “We knew that it was a bold decision,” Gutierrez told ...

The bidding lasted only minutes, but its impact rippled far beyond the auction room. The deeply introspective self-portrait was one of the rare Kahlo works still in private hands and eligible for ...