The buyer\u2019s name was not disclosed.<\/p>\n
The artwork depicts the artist sleeping in a bed that appears to float among clouds in the sky, lying beneath a skeleton with legs that are wrapped with sticks of dynamite.<\/p>\n
This painting is a \u201cvery personal\u201d image, in which Kahlo \u201cmerges folkloric motifs from Mexican culture with European surrealism,\u201d Anna Di Stasi, head of Latin American art at Sotheby\u2019s, told AFP.<\/p>\n
The Mexican artist, who died in 1954 aged 47, \u201cdid not completely agree\u201d with her work being associated with the surrealist movement, Di Stasi said.<\/p>\n
However, \u201cgiven this magnificent iconography, it seems entirely appropriate to include it\u201d in this movement.<\/p>\n
The record-setting sale came two nights after the New York auction house reeled in another record sale, with a painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt fetching US$236.4m on the block \u2013 the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.<\/p>\n
Klimt\u2019s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which he painted between 1914 and 1916, depicts the daughter of his main patron dressed in a white imperial Chinese dress, standing before a blue tapestry with Asian-inspired motifs.<\/p>\n
The most expensive painting ever sold at auction remains Salvator Mundi, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, which was bought for US$450m in 2017.<\/p>\n
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