Sotheby's and Kahlo...it'll cost ya

Mexican paintress Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) can add another sale and two record-breakers to her growing list of post-mortem achievements. Houstonian Marilyn Oshman (you know about the Orange Show because of her) put up for auction Roots, painted by Kahlo in 1943, after owning it for twenty-five years.

An anonymous bidder paid about $5.6 million at Sotheby's New York, which listed its ballpark figure for the sale from $5 to $7 million. Even a couple million short of the high estimate, it still is a record dollar amount not only for a work by Kahlo, but also for a Latin American work of art at an auction (and Sotheby's didn't do too badly, either...).

Image: Sotheby's New York