The 1949 picture Diego y yo (Diego and I) by Frida Kahlo is set to smash many records this fall. The piece will be featured in Sotheby's Modern Evening Sale in November, according to the auction house. In 1990, a painting by a Latin American artist became the first to sell for more than a million dollars at auction. Explore the most expensive artist works by Latin American artists on auctiondaily.

Now, three industry records will be challenged by this painting. Kahlo's previous solo auction record, achieved in 2016, will almost probably be shattered by this sale. The estimate for Diego and I also approaches Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 as the current record for a painting by a woman artist. In 2014, Sotheby's auctioned O'Keeffe's work for $44.4 million. Furthermore, Kahlo's Diego and I are likely to set new standards for Latin American painters.

We look at the top five most expensive paintings by Latin American artists sold at auction as the art world prepares for the sale of Frida Kahlo's personal self-portrait.

The selling of Frida Kahlo's Autorretrato with aeroplano broke records at a Sotheby's auction in 2000. (Self-Portrait With Airplane). The piece sold for $5,065,750, above its high estimate. This was the most expensive work ever created by a woman artist at the time. The auction also established a significant precedent for Latin American art, which was still a new global genre at the time.

At the age of 22, Kahlo completed Self-Portrait With Airplane, shortly after her first marriage to Diego Rivera. For the first time, she began to experiment with her artistic approach. These early Kahlo paintings featured traditional Mexican folkloric motifs. The young artist wore a peasant blouse and a pre-Columbian jewellery in this piece. Self-Portrait With Airplane captures Kahlo's youth and purity as a newlywed. She subsequently abandoned these themes in order to adequately express the physical and mental suffering she had had throughout her life. To know more about such artists and auctions, explore the Latin American art auction.

In 2006, Frida Kahlo achieved the highest price for a Latin American artist at auction with her Ra*ces (Roots) painting from 1943 with Sotheby's in New York. However, despite topping the record, Roots sold near its low estimate.

Roots is a self-portrait in which Kahlo posed herself in a rocky landscape that was inspired by her first marriage with Diego Rivera. She is wearing an orange dress, staring idly at the viewer as green vines pour from her torso. It is one of Kahlo's more peaceful self-portraits. The painting was completed shortly after she rereunited with Rivera in their second marriage. Though she added cracks to the ground, Kahlo.

'Trovador' (The Troubadour) by Rufino Tamayo broke Frida Kahlo's auction record in 2008. The painting reached $7,209,000 at Christie's and more than doubled Tamayo's previous sale record. It set an industry record for a Latin American artist for the next eight years.

Rufino Tamayo finished The Troubadour in 1945. In that year, he was at the height of his critical acclaim. Tamayo continually distanced himself from his politically-minded contemporaries, including Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. Instead, he tried to bridge Mexican iconography with the broader humanist movement taking hold in the West. The Troubadour reflects Tamayo's interest in the "everyman" and the alienation that can grow between such a person and society.

Fida Kahlo holds the second-highest price for a Latin American artist in the history of art. Her 1939 painting titled Two Nudes in a Forest sold for $8,005,000 with Christie's in 2016. The piece easily surpassed Kahlo's previous sale record of $8,000,000. However, the piece barely reached its low estimate of $8,000,000 despite widespread anticipation.

Two Nudes in a Forest depicts two women lying under a canopy of leafy plants. It may refer to Kahlo's perception of herself as many individuals, as a result of her mixed ancestry, history of chronic pain, and bisexuality. Both Kahlo and Diego Rivera were involved in affairs that severely strained their marriage, which was almost falling apart at the time Kahlo completed Two Nudes in a Forest. Her tumultuous personal life also resulted in masterful portrayals of emotional pain in Kahlo's Surrealist visual language.

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