Self-portrait of Frida Kahlo “Diego and Me” was sold at auction for 34.9 million dollars I “sold at an auction in New York for $ 34.9 million. This was announced by the auction house Sotheby's on Twitter.
The work was written in 1949. According to the portal News.artnet, the buyer was the collector Eduardo F. Costantini.
It is noted that this is a record amount for all Latin American artists ever exhibited at the auction. Prior to that, the record belonged to the painting by Mexican artist Diego Rivera “Rivals”, which sold for $ 9.76 million in 2018.
In July, the drawing “Bear's Head”, created by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, left hammer at Christie's in London for a record amount for such works of the author of 12.2 million dollars (just over 917 million rubles).