The product in question must be not readily identifiable without using the term Frida Kahlo. For example, “Portrait of Frida Kahlo.” All the words in the artist’s listing are given equal dignity (for example, all words should have the same font and size as the name “Frida Kahlo”). Frida Kahlo ’s painting “Diego y Yo” sold for $34.9 million on Tuesday, breaking records to become the most expensive piece by a Latin American artist to be sold at auction. The painting, from 1949, was the last “bust” self-portrait the legendary Mexican artist made before she died in 1954 at age 47, according to Sotheby’s. Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States of America (1932) Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is an established icon of the modern age. Her distinctive personal style, her tempestuous marriage to Diego Rivera, and her stoicism in the face of physical pain have endeared her to millions. Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's "Diego y yo" set a new auction record for art by a Latin American artist, selling for $34.9 million at Sotheby's on Tuesday night. Frida Kahlo's "Diego y yo," a Diego y yo (Diego and Me, 1949), which sold at Sotheby’s auction house in New York on Tuesday for $34.9m (£25m), shows Rivera in the centre of Kahlo’s forehead. Similarly putting Kahlo’s art in a larger context, the MCA is showing two of her paintings from 1946—La Venadita (Little Deer), which shows her as a wounded deer, and the more disturbing Arbol A reference to her miscarriage in 1932, Kahlo's painting Henry Ford Hospital is a distressing depiction of a sobbing Kahlo surrounded by, among other things, her lost child and smashed pelvis, joined to her by umbilical cords. Intensely personal, it is an insight into the darkest, deepest torments of her mind. By Alicia du Plessis Posted March 13, 2022 Updated November 24, 2023. Frida Kahlo’s double self-portrait, The Two Fridas (1939), illustrates the artist’s fraught relationship with heartbreak, self-identity, gender, and sadness. It is a painting with many faces, so to say, which we will explore in more depth in the article below. Rivera and Kahlo even divorced once, in 1939, only to remarry the following year. In spite of its complications, their partnership in art, love, and life lasted until Kahlo's death in 1954. "Being the wife of Diego is the most marvelous thing in the world," Kahlo once said (via FridaKahlo.org ). "I let him play matrimony with other women. Today, her works sell for very high prices. In May 2006, Frida Kahlo self-portrait, Roots, was sold for $5.62 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York, sets a record as the most expensive Latin American work ever purchased at auction, and also makes Frida Kahlo one of the highest-selling woman in art. Continue reading from Frida Kahlo oUKs.