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Nochlin’s assertion, on face value, caused many to bristle, and I am sure that my own statement will do the same. There have still been no great women artists.
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Her face has been emblazoned on everything from t-shirts to tote bags and pencil cases she has been the subject of tens of museum shows and books (both scholarly and popular) and even a Hollywood film.īut has she achieved that elusive female “greatness” of which Nochlin so famously wrote? In the 50 years since the pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin published “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” Frida Kahlo’s star has risen. (image courtesy Sotheby’s)Īn artist allegedly as great as Rembrandt, and yet Kahlo achieved the auction price of a middling Franz Klein. Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait “Diego y yo (Diego and I)” (1949) will come up for auction at Sotheby’s in November and is expected to fetch over $30 million. For comparison, competing interest in an Alexander Calder mobile earlier in the evening resulted in 12 minutes of back and forth bidding, driving the price well above its estimate. Though the portrait was estimated to sell at between $30 and $50 million dollars, the painting barely surpassed its low end, with a hammer price of $31 million, a mere minute after it came onto the auction block.
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(The current record is held by Georgia O’Keeffe, whose “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. The strength of the image, coupled with the fact that much of Kahlo’s work cannot leave Mexico due to cultural patrimony laws (read: Kahlo’s work is rare to see at auction), set the stage for an exciting evening, with many anticipating a new record price for a female artist. “Diego y yo” is about the best example of a Kahlo painting you could ask for, an iconic image from a now iconic artist. “She is of that level of significance, recognition, and importance.” In a pre-sale promotional video, Brooke Lampley of Sotheby’s situated Kahlo in the ranks of art history’s greatest artists: “Kahlo and self-portraiture are synonymous like Rembrant and self-portraiture,” she stated. Last week a Frida Kahlo self-portrait, titled “Diego y yo,”from 1949, came up at auction.