Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become the most expensive female artist at auction, after her El sueno (la cama) painting sold for $US56 million.

A surrealist painting from the 1940s by Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m) - shattering the auction record for an ...

Selling for $1.5 million, the canvas comes from the collection of Walter Bauer, who championed persecuted artists.

The Dream (The Bed)’ by the Mexican icon surpassed a $44.4 million Georgia O’Keeffe flower that held the top honor for 11 years.

One of the last Fabergé eggs in private hands sold on Tuesday, breaking its own record as the most expensive work by the ...

The Winter Egg’s record stood until 2007, when the Rothschild Egg, a dazzling 1902 specimen featuring a clock and an ...

A painting dated back to the 1940s by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7 million at a New York art auction, shattering female artist auction records. The self-portrait titled El sueño (la ...