One of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo’s final self-portraits broke several art market records Tuesday when it sold for $34.9 million, the highest price ever realized for artwork by a Latin American artist at auction.
“Diego y yo” is an intense self-portrait of the artist with an image of her husband and fellow Mexican artist, Diego Rivera, painted onto her forehead as tears stream down her cheeks and her long hair encircles her neck, almost in a chokehold.
It is one of the last of the signature portraits Kahlo painted of herself throughout her career, auction house Sotheby’s said, and was completed in 1949 when Rivera was having an affair with Mexican film actress María Félix, a friend of Kahlo’s.
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