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A Frida Kahlo painting sold for $34.9 million, setting a benchmark for the most valuable work of Latin American art ever sold at auction.

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 8:37 PM EST

Completed five years before her death in 1954, the oil painting, "Diego and I," is one of Kahlo's final self-portraits and an example of the unsettling intimacy that has attracted collectors to her paintings. The work offers a window into her turbulent marriage with the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.

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