His collection also features Kahlo's 1942 'Autorretrato con chango y loro' ('Self portrait with monkey and parrot') which he acquired in a 1995 auction for $3.2 million as well as paintings done by her husband.
'Diego and I' beat the record for most expensive painting by a Latin American artist set by its own subject in 2018, when one of Rivera's paintings sold at auction for $9.76 million.Ĭostantini told Argentine newspaper Clarín in an interview published Wednesday that he will be keeping the portrait in his personal collection, but would share it with the public by displaying it as part of a series of exhibitions at his museum. Costantini at Sotheby's, according to the New York Times. The painting was sold to Argentinian real estate developer and museum founder Eduardo F. The self-portrait came out of this experience.' It was completed in 1949 just five years before her death.Īt the time of its painting, PBS reports that 'rumors circulated that Diego intended to marry the film star Maria Felix, with whom he was having an affair. Although nothing came of the affair and Diego remained with Frida, she was hurt. The painting, titled 'Diego and I,' features a bust of her husband Diego Rivera, painted with a third eye on his forehead, sitting atop her eyebrows as she weeps. One of Frida Kahlo's iconically harrowing self-portraits became the most expensive artwork by a Latin American artist on Tuesday after it sold at auction for $34.9 million.