A surrealist painting from the 1940s by Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m) – shattering the auction record for an artwork by a female artist.
The painting went for more than 1,000 times its original auction price in 1980, after a tense…

A surrealist painting from the 1940s by Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m) – shattering the auction record for an artwork by a female artist.
The painting went for more than 1,000 times its original auction price in 1980, after a tense…