Diego and I

Diego and I (Spanish: Diego y yo) is an oil on canvas painting by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, from 1949.^[1]

Diego and I
Artist	Frida Kahlo
Year	1949
Medium	Oil on canvas
Movement	Naïve art Surrealism
Dimensions	30 cm × 22.4 cm (12 in × 8.8 in)
Location	Private collection

In November 2021, it sold at auction in Sotheby's New York for US$34.9 million, a record at the time for a Kahlo work, and for a work by a Latin American artist.^[2] It shattered the record previously held by the painting The Rivals (1931)^[3] by her husband Diego Rivera (1886-1957) who appears on her forehead in this work.^[4]

It is the last fully realized "bust" self-portrait Kahlo completed before her death in 1954.^[5][6]

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.^[2] The painting had previously sold at Sotheby's in 1990 for $1.4 million.^[2]

See also

• List of paintings by Frida Kahlo