{"id":492010,"date":"2025-11-20T21:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/frida-kahlo-painting-sells-for-54-7-million-becomes-the-most-expensive-work-by-a-woman\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:27:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:27:33","slug":"frida-kahlo-painting-sells-for-54-7-million-becomes-the-most-expensive-work-by-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/frida-kahlo-painting-sells-for-54-7-million-becomes-the-most-expensive-work-by-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Frida Kahlo painting sells for $54.7 million; becomes the most expensive work by a woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>New York<\/strong>.- The surrealist self-portrait &#8220;El Sue\u00f1o&#8221; by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, became this Thursday the most expensive work by a woman when it was auctioned for 54.7 million dollars at Sotheby&#8217;s in New York.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/accounts\/login\/?next=%2Ffridakahlo%2F&amp;source=omni_redirect\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/accounts\/login\/?next=%2Ffridakahlo%2F&amp;source=omni_redirect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kahlo <\/a>thus surpasses the American Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe, whose work &#8216;Jimson Weed\/White Flower No 1&#8217; held the record for the most expensive painting by a woman, sold in 2014 for 44.4 million dollars.<\/p>\n\n\nThe auction took place in the brutalist building The Breuer, in the Big Apple, where Sotheby&#8217;s has recently been located, and the buyer was a client who bid through Anna Di Stasi, head of the Latin American Art department of the auction house.\n\nThe painting, which was estimated to fetch a price between $40 and $60 million, was already sold at Sotheby&#8217;s in 1980, but for a significantly lower price: $51,000.\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/dos-acusados-en-alemania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/entretenimiento\/hoy-se-cumplen-117-anos-del-nacimiento-de-frida-kahlo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Today marks the 117th anniversary of Frida Kahlo&#8217;s birth | De \u00daltimo Minuto<\/a><\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nThe third most expensive work made by a woman is also by Kahlo. It is her painting &#8216;Diego and I&#8217;, which sold for $34.9 million in 2021.\n\nShe is followed by &#8216;Untitled&#8217;, by the American Joan Mitchell, also one of the most sought-after women in the art world.\n\nMeanwhile, the living woman who has achieved the highest sale price is the South African Marlene Dumas, with &#8216;Miss January&#8217;, sold for 13.6 million dollars this year.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York.- The surrealist self-portrait &#8220;El Sue\u00f1o&#8221; by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, became this Thursday the most expensive work by a woman when it was auctioned for 54.7 million dollars at Sotheby&#8217;s in New York. Kahlo thus surpasses the American Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe, whose work &#8216;Jimson Weed\/White Flower No 1&#8217; held the record for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-23ZE","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}