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Frida Kahlo’s record-breaking painting El Sueño positions death as a roommate

By Benedict Carpenter van Barthold, Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University

Frida Kahlo’s 1940 self-portrait, El Sueño (La Cama), or The Dream (The Bed), has sold for US$54.7 million (£41.4m) at Sotheby’s New York. It is now the most expensive Latin American artwork in history, and has set the auction record for a female artist.

Kahlo’s canvas was the standout lot in a collection titled Surrealist Treasures. The painting appears to be a quintessential surrealist…

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