Diego and I

Diego and I (Spanish: Diego y yo) is a 1949 oil painting by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954).

Diego and I
Artist	Frida Kahlo
Year	1949
Medium	Oil on canvas
Movement	Naïve art Surrealism

In November 2021, it sold at auction in Sotheby's New York for US$34.9 million, a record for a Kahlo work, and for a work by a Latin American artist.^[1] It shattered the record previously held by the painting The Rivals (1931)^[2] by her husband Diego Rivera (1886-1957) who appears on her forehead in this work.^[3]

It is the last fully realized "bust" self-portrait Kahlo completed before her death in 1954.^[4][5]

The purchaser was Eduardo Costantini, the founder of MALBA, the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, who bought it for his private collection.^[1] The painting had previously sold at Sotheby's in 1990 for $1.4 million.^[1]

See also

• List of paintings by Frida Kahlo