A 1940 self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, entitled “El sueño (La cama),” can make public auction background Thursday at Sotheby’s in New york city
NEW YORK CITY– NEW YORK CITY (AP)– A 1940 self-portrait by renowned Mexican musician Frida Kahlo of her sleeping in a bed can make background Thursday when it takes place sale by Sotheby’s in New york city.
With an approximated rate of $40 million to $60 million, “El sueño (La cama)”– in English, “The Desire (The Bed)”– might go beyond the leading rate for a job by any type of women musician when it goes under the hammer. That document presently stands at $44.4 million, paid at Sotheby’s in 2014 for Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Jimson Weed/White Blossom No. 1.”
The highest possible rate at public auction for a Kahlo job is $34.9 million, paid in 2021 for “Diego and I,” illustrating the musician and her partner,muralist Diego Rivera Her paints are reported to have actually marketed independently for much more.
The paint up for public auction shows Kahlo asleep in a wood colonial-style bed, covered in a gold covering stitched with creeping creeping plants and leaves. Over her, relatively rising atop the bedposts, exists a full-sized skeletal system.
In its magazine note, Sotheby’s claimed the paint “provides a spooky reflection on the permeable border in between rest and fatality.”
Last displayed openly in the late 1990s, the paint is the celebrity of a sale of greater than 100 surrealist jobs by musicians consisting of Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst and Dorothea Sun Tanning. They are from a personal collection whose proprietor has actually not been revealed.
Kahlo vibrantly and unsparingly shown herself and occasions from her life, which was overthrown by a bus crash at 18. She began to repaint while bedridden, went through a collection of uncomfortable surgical treatments on her broken back and hips, after that put on casts up until her fatality in 1954 at age 47.
” The put on hold skeletal system is frequently taken a visualization of her anxiousness regarding passing away in her rest, an anxiety all as well possible for a musician whose day-to-day presence was formed by persistent discomfort and previous injury,” the magazine notes.
