Also, this painting has been interpreted as a expressly open statement about bisexuality of the Mexican artist. In fact, this was a gift from the painter to Dolores del Ríoone of the first Latin American actresses that triumphed in Hollywood.
His work breaks record
In addition to its artistic and historical value, «Two nudes in the forest» managed to break recordbecause it was Frida was the first Latin American artist to exceed one million dollars for one of his works.
During an auction of modern and impressionist art of the house Christie's in New Yorkthis work was sold on May 12, 2016 by $ 8.5 million, The highest price so far of the work of the iconic Mexican artist.
Prior to this, his painting «Roots» It was sold at $ 5.6 million during a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2006, while the work «Diego and me» It was sold for $ 1.4 million in 1990.
It is worth mentioning that in the same auction of «Two naked in the forest»other works of great value were sold as «Pond With Water Lilies» by Claude Monet, which was sold at $ 27 million, as well as «Young Woman With Rose (Margherita)» by Amedee Modiglianiwith a value of $ 12 million.
What happened to this work?
Prior to the auction, «Two nudes in the forest» It was part of the exhibition «Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950» in the Museum of Art of Philadelphia, as well as the exhibition of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City in 2017.
More about Frida Kahlo
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón, better known as Frida Kahlowas born in 1907 in the Coyoacán neighborhood of Mexico City.
However, at age 18 he suffered a terrible accident on a bus, which caused fractures in various bones and lesions in the spine, which left her motionless and with great pain for the rest of her life, which she expressed through her works of art, recognized today in Mexico and in the world.