A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is expected to break records when it goes up for auction in New York this week. The surrealist painting, being sold on November 20 by a private collector, ...

The record-breaking result for Frida Kahlo’s surreal self-portrait El sueño (La cama) Thursday evening at Sotheby’s in New York highlights a trend gaining steam for female artists whose works are ...

A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become the most valuable work by a female artist sold at auction after selling for $54.7 million. Kahlo’s surrealist self portrait, which was sold by ...

Many of these records were set within the past decade. Frida Kahlo, El sueño (La cama) (1940). Courtesy of Sotheby's. This work has appeared in every major Krasner retrospective. It was even stolen in ...

Over the last 15 years, prices paid at auction houses for paintings, sculptures and other art have skyrocketed, setting ever-higher bars for the most expensive art sold at auctions. Owning art has ...

“El sueño (La cama)” (1940), a surreal rumination on dreams, nightmares, and the afterlife, sold for $54.7M at Sotheby's. Frida Kahlo, “El sueño (La cama)” (1940) (all images courtesy Sotheby's New ...

A 1940 self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for 54.7 million US dollars (£41.8 million), becoming the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction. The painting of Kahlo asleep in a ...

On October 24, Heritage Auctions conducted the sale of the ‘Television Treasures Collection’ amassed by pop-culture collector extraordinaire Dr. Stewart Berkowitz, which included iconic outfits from ...