Frida Kahlo's El sueño (La cama) or The Dream (The Bed), which sold for $54.7-million, is displayed at Sotheby's auction rooms in London, on Sept. 19.

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7-million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction.

The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed — titled El sueño (La cama) or in English, The Dream (The Bed) – surpassed the record held by Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 , which sold for $44.4-million in 2014.

The sale at Sotheby’s in New York also topped Kahlo’s own auction record for a work by a Latin American artist. The 1949 painting Diego and I , depicting the artist and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, went for $34.9-million in 2021. Her paintings

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