Self-portrait of Frida Kahlo and her husband sold at auction for $ 34.9 million

A painting by a famous Mexican artist has been sold. Frida Kahlo A painting and painting by a Latin American artist titled “Diego and I”, completed in 1949, went under the hammer at an auction on Tuesday for $ 34.9 million for her and her husband, artist Diego Rivera. It was recently put up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York, and was sold to an unnamed buyer, with an auction house stating $ 3.9 million worth of fees, and the painting showed Kahlo with tears in her eyes and her hair down, and a picture of Rivera’s face with three eyes on her thick eyebrows..

Opening the auction, Sotheby’s senior manager Oliver Parker said: “This is one of the most important works of Frida Kahlo’s ever auctioned, and we are pleased to have her at Sotheby’s.“, According to Sky News.

Kahlo left about 200 paintings and portraits, mostly self-portraits, in which he expressed his suffering in dark colors..

World-renowned plastic artist Frida Kahlo is known to have suffered many disasters and crises throughout her life, but she faced them with full force..

As a result, her hip was fractured, her spine was fractured in three places, her right leg was fractured in 11 places, her shoulder was displaced, her collarbone was fractured, and doctors later discovered that three additional vertebrae were broken. As mentioned in the historical website.