Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $55m, sets auction record for a female artist

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…

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