Kahlo’s ‘Bed of Dreams’ breaks record at $55 million
Surrealist self-portrait sells for unprecedented price, cementing its place among the most famous female artists Bed of Dreams. Photo: file A surreal self-portrait by iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo sold for $54.7 million, breaking the auction record for any work by a female artist. The 1940 painting, El sueno (La cama) — or “The Dream (The Bed)” — has fetched more than 1,000 times its original hammer price since 1980, after a heated dispute between two collectors at Sotheby’s in New York. The haunting work depicts Kahlo sleeping on a wooden four-poster bed, her figure draped beneath a skeleton laced









