Sotheby’s, in New York, describes “The Dream (The Bed)” as one of Frida Kahlo’s most moving and impactful works. Painted in 1940, the piece could cost more than 44 million dollars.
The surrealist self-portrait “The Dream (The Bed)”, by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, which will be auctioned in New York this Thursday, could break a record and become the most expensive work of art ever created by a woman.
Sotheby’s in New York describes the painting as one of “most moving” e “shocking” of Kahlo’s artistic production.
The auctioneer predicts that “The Dream (The Bed)”, painted in 1940, be sold for an amount between 40 and 60 million dollars (between 34.6 and 42 million euros, at the current exchange rate).
Currently, the American artist Georgia O’Keeffe and her work “Jimson Weed/White Flower No.” hold the record for the most expensive painting ever done by a woman, sold for 44 million dollars (38.1 million euros).
Furthermore, if the painting sells for more than 34.9 million dollars (30 million euros), it will become the Mexican artist’s most expensive work.
Kahlo painted “The Dream (The Bed)” during a particularly turbulent period in his lifewhen his health deteriorated that year due to polio and complications from a bus accident he suffered in 1925.
Therefore, the Mexican artist evokes death in painting, portraying herself asleep on a wooden bed, wrapped in a golden blanket embroidered with vines and leaves.
Above the bed, there is a life-size skeleton wrapped in dynamite, holding a bouquet of flowers and resting on pillows.
