"Diego y yo" by Frida Kahlo was sold yesterday for $34.9 million at Sotheby’s
17 November 2021
It was not only the highest sale of Latin American art - the previous record for the most expensive Latin American work of art sold at auction was held by Rivera's painting Los Rivales (1931)sold for $9.76 million in 2018 - but it also broke the previous record for a Kahlo piece, "Two Nudes in the Forest", which had sold for roughly $8 million in 2016.
"Diego y yo" is now the second most valuable work by a woman, after Georgia O'Keefe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, which sold for $44.4 million.
The work was purchased by the Eduardo F. Costantini Collection, an Argentinian collector with "a strong dedication to promoting Latin American art and artists" and founder the Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA) in Buenos Aires.
"Diego y yo" last sold at Sotheby’s for $1.4m in 1990.
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