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Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection

Frida Kahlo

El sueño (La cama)

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40,000,000 - 60,000,000 USD

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Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection

Frida Kahlo

(1907 - 1954) 


El sueño (La cama)

signed Frida Kahlo and dated 1940 (lower right)

oil on canvas

29 ⅛ by 38 ⅝ in.   74 by 98 cm.

Executed in 1940.


We wish to thank Professor Luis-Martín Lozano for his kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.

Please note, this work has been requested for the following upcoming exhibitions: 'Frida y Diego: The Last Dream' to be held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 22 March — 7 September 2026, 'Frida: The Making of an Icon' to be held at the Tate Modern, London, 25 June 2026 — 3 January 2027 and 'Frida Kahlo—The Painter' to be held at the Fondation Beyeler, Basel from 31 January — 17 May 2027.

Galería Misrachi, Mexico City

Private Collection, Mexico City (acquired from the above) [Luis de Hoyos]

Sotheby’s New York, 9 May 1980, lot 39 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner


London, Whitechapel Gallery; Berlin, Haus am Waldsee; Hamburg, Kunstverein; Hannover, Kunstverein; Stockholm, Kulturhuset; New York City, New York University, Grey Art Gallery and Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte, Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti, 1982-83, n.p., illustrated in color

New York, Baruch College Gallery, Women Artists of the Surrealist Movement, 1986-87, p. 179, illustrated in color

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, no. 107, p. 170, illustrated in color

London, Tate Modern, Frida Kahlo, 2005, no. 25, p. 111, illustrated in color

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Frida Kahlo, 2007-08, no. 43, pp. 65, 113 and 182, illustrated in color


Bertram D. Wolfe, The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera, New York, 1963, fig. 157, n.p., illustrated

Raquel Tibol, Frida Kahlo, Frankfurt, 1980, n.p., illustrated 

Lucy Lippard, “Biofeedback”, The East Village Voice, 22 March 1983, p. 104, illustrated

Edward J. Sullivan, “Frida Kahlo in New York,” Arts Magazine, March 1983, p. 91, illustrated 

Hayden Herrera, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, New York, 1983, pp. 281 and 321, illustrated in color

Whitney Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, Boston, 1985, no. 119, p. 136, illustrated 

Helga Prignitz-Poda, Salomon Grimberg and Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahlo, Das Gesamtwerk, Frankfurt, 1988, no. 71, pp. 133 and 247, illustrated in color

Louis Lo, Frida Kahlo:  Portrait of an Artist, KQED-TV, 1989, 46:40-47:16, illustrated in color

Sarah M. Lowe, Universe Series on Women Artists: Frida Kahlo, New York, 1991, pl. 27, illustrated in color 

Hayden Herrera, Frida Kahlo: The Paintings, New York, 1991, pp. 141-42, illustrated in color

Carlos Monsiváis, Frida Kahlo: Una vida, Una Obra, Mexico City, 1992, p. 49, illustrated in color 

Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954: Pain and Passion, Cologne, 1993, p. 83, illustrated in color

Jean-Paul Clébert, Dictionnaire du surréalisme, Paris, 1996, p. 509, illustrated

Salomon Grimberg, Frida Kahlo, Greenwich, 1997, p. 83, illustrated in color

Jack Rummel, Frida Kahlo: A Spiritual Biography, New York, 2000, pp. 138-39, illustrated

Luis-Martín Lozano, ed., Kahlo, Mexico City, 2000, pp. 168-69, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (on the cover)

Teresa Del Conde, Frida Kahlo:  La pintora y el mito, Barcelona, 2001, pl.XIII, illustrated

Helga Prignitz-Poda, Frida Kahlo:  The Painter And Her Work, New York, 2004, pp. 146-49, illustrated in color

Gannit Ankori, Frida Kahlo’s Poetics of Identity and Fragmentation, Westport, 2002, no. 48, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Frida Kahlo, 2006, fig. 1, p. 23, illustrated in color

Claudia Bauer, Frida Kahlo, Munich, 2007, p. 100, illustrated in color 

Fomento Cultural Banamex, ed., Frida’s Frida, Mexico City, 2007, pp. 80-81, illustrated in color 

Martha Zamora, El pincel de la angustia, Mexico City, 2007, p. 314, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, Frida Kahlo, 2014, p. 85, illustrated in color

Luis-Martín Lozano, ed., The Complete Paintings of Frida Kahlo, Cologne, 2021, pp. 202-03 and 549-50, illustrated in color

Museo Frida Kahlo, ed., Frida Kahlo:  Her Universe, Mexico City, 2021, p. 89, illustrated in color