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Frida Kahlo painting sold for record-breaking $54.7 million
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0:56Now PlayingAn arresting self-portrait by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is now the most expensive work of art created by a woman to be sold at auction.
The 1940 painting, "El sueño (La cama)," sold for $54.7 million Thursday night at Sotheby's in New York. The work depicts the artist slumbering beneath a tangle of vines in a carved canopy bed with a skeleton reclining above her.
The sale outstripped the 2014 record set by Kahlo's friend and contemporary Georgia O'Keeffe, when O'Keeffe's 1932 work "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1" sold at auction for $44.4 million. The last time Frida Kahlo broke an auction record was in 2021, when her 1949 work "Diego y yo" sold for $34.9 million.
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