![]() She was a noted communist supporter who met Diego Rivera, an already famous muralist who was 20 years older than her, through politically engaged friends. The artist spent much of her time in bed with chronic pain, even painting herself lying down in various pieces. An iron handrail stabbed through her pelvis. She contracted polio at age six, but was made permanently disabled when she suffered a bus accident at 18. Costantini also founded a museum in Buenos Aires The painting was bought by Argentinian real estate tycoon Eduardo Costantini, above in 2016, for his personal collection. This differentiates this piece from other paintings, such as 'Self portrait with monkey and parrot,' and makes it a unique work. 'The drama of her personal and love life was reflected in her works, and particularly in 'Diego and I.' She tenderly pours her drama onto the canvas. ![]() A self-portraitist who condenses all the qualities of the greatest artists, also because of her charisma and the admiration that her works provoke, and that she has also had the ability to write her autobiography through the images that she painted,' he said. Her paintings, he suggests, demonstrated a tendency of expressing her personal life story on canvas. Diego and I somehow condenses an important part of their life history.'Ī collector of modern, postmodern and contemporary art, Costantini considered the addition of 'Diego and I' as artwork that 'that split the earth.' 'She has caught on in collective love in a universal way and this work, Diego and I, which I acquire, is particularly important because it precisely synthesizes her transcendence as an artist, in addition to expressing in her the drama of her personal life. She is a Latin American artist but she is beloved and valued throughout the world, and that recognition has also been growing in these years,' Costantini said. 'Frida is Messi, and has already transcended the region. 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. ![]()
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