The surreal self-portrait ‘The Dream (The Bed)’, by Frida Kahlo, which will be auctioned this Thursday in New York, could set a record and become the most expensive work of art by a woman.
Those interested will be able to bid for the piece tomorrow at Sotheby’s headquarters in New York, which describes the painting as one of the “most moving” and “shocking” of Kahlo’s artistic production.
The auction house predicts that ‘The Dream (The Bed)’, made in 1940, will reach a price between 40 and 60 million dollars.
Until now, American Georgia O’Keeffe and her ‘Jimson Weed/White Flower No’ holds the record for the most expensive painting by a woman to date, which sold for $44 million.
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On the other hand, if the work exceeds 34.9 million dollars it will become the most expensive painting by the Mexican artist.
Kahlo painted ‘The Dream (The Bed)’ at a “particularly turbulent” time in her life, as that year her health deteriorated due to polio and complications arising from a bus accident in 1925.
For this reason, the Mexican woman evokes death in the work and represents herself asleep on a wooden bed and wrapped in a golden blanket embroidered with vines and leaves.
Atop the bedposts lies a life-size skeleton wrapped in dynamite, holding a bouquet of flowers and reclining on pillows.
With information from EFE.
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