Visitors to Buenos Aires could have the prospect to marvel at the costliest work by a Latin American artist ever to promote at public sale – a self-portrait by Frida Kahlo (1907-1954).
The Mexican artist’s work Diego y yo (Diego And I) is the centrepiece of the brand new Tercer ojo (Third Eye) exhibit on the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires – also referred to as the Malba – which opened not too long ago.
The museum’s founder, Argentinian entrepreneur Eduardo Costantini, purchased the portray at public sale in New York final November for the document sum of US$34.9mil (RM157mil).
Completed in 1949, Diego y yo exhibits Kahlo’s personal face along with her husband Diego Rivera depicted in the center of her brow.
The paining is her final self-portrait, created 5 years earlier than her loss of life in 1954.
It represents her passionate however tough relationship with the well-known muralist, from whom she divorced in some unspecified time in the future earlier than the couple remarried in 1940.
The portray was final on public display in 1998, earlier than it was bought by a non-public assortment in the US.
In 2021, it was offered off at public sale, fetching the very best worth ever paid for Latin American artwork.
Tecer ojose combines Costantini’s non-public assortment and works from the Malba, with 240 items by Latin American artists like Diego Rivera, Tarsila do Amaral, Xul Solar, Joaquín Torres García, Emilio Pettoruti, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Maria Martins, Remedios Varo, Antonio Berni and Jorge de la Vega on display. – dpa
