Tag: self-portrait

• Mexico’s 500 Pesos Note: Celebrating Frida Kahlo

  

  The art world was abuzz recently. Two famous paintings sold at auctions, fetching record prices. One sold for $236.4 million and the other for $54.7 million. One was by Gustav Klimt, a European artist, and the other by female Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. Kahlo is the inspiration behind this post. Her self-portrait, The Dream (The…

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  November 26, 2025

  North America

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