
Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection
El sueño (La cama)
Estimate
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.
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
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