A 1931 portrait by Imogen Cunningham, for example, shows the artist wearing one of her treasured necklaces dating from Mexico’s pre-Colombian era, along with earrings from the country’s colonial period. In 1953 she had her first exhibition in Mexico, at an art gallery in Mexico City. These intimate portraits serve to highlight how Kahlo expressed (through clothing and jewellery) a fierce connection to her Mexican heritage. The exhibitions in New York City in 1938 and in Paris in 1939 were organized through her contact with the French surrealist poet and essayist Andre Breton. Kahlo had three exhibitions during her lifetime. She portrayed her physical disintegration, the result of the bus accident, in such works as The Broken Column (1944, Collection of Dolores Olmedo Foundation, Mexico City), in which she wears a metal brace and her body is open to reveal a broken column in place of her spine. Artist Frida Kahlo was considered one of Mexicos greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident. The turbulence of her marriage is shown in the weeping and physically injured self-portraits she painted when she felt rejected by Rivera. She frequently focused on the painful aspects of her life, using graphic imagery to convey her meaning. Like Rivera, she wanted her oil paintings to affirm her Mexican identity, and she frequently used subject matter from Mexican archaeology and folk art.įrida Kahlo primarily depicted her personal experience. Influenced by Rivera's work, Frida Kahlo adopted his use of broad, simplified color areas and a deliberately naive style in her oil paintings. After three years she took some of her first oil paintings to the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who encouraged her to continue her work. During her recuperation, Kahlo taught herself to paint. While a student at Mexico City's National Preparatory School in 1925, she sustained severe injuries in a bus accident. Kahlo was born in Coyoacun, Mexico, near Mexico City. In a statement, Dawes said, “Tonight’s outstanding result further secures her place in the auction echelon she belongs, as one of the true titans of 20th century art.Mexican oil painter, who produced mostly small, highly personal self-portraits using elements of fantasy and a style inspired by native popular art. Not only did Diego y yo bring a new artist record for Kahlo, it also become the most expensive work by a Latin American artist ever sold at auction, surpassing the previous record held by Rivera’s painting The Rivals, which sold at Christie’s for $9.8 million in 2019. Prior to that sale, it belonged to Chicago writer and critic Florence Arquin, who was a friend of Rivera and Kahlo.
The Kahlo painting was sold by a descendant of a New York collector, who purchased it in 1990 at Sotheby’s for $1.4 million. Costantini, founder of Malba, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.
The painting, which was offered in the sale with an irrevocable bid hammered with di Stasi’s client at a hammer price of $31 million, just above the $30 million low estimate.
Just two bidders-one on the phone with Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s co-head of Impressionist and modern art in New York, and the other on the phone with Anna di Stasi, Sotheby’s senior vice president for Latin American art-competed for the work.
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