"Frida Kahlo's Autorretrato en Miniatura (ca. 1938), the only miniature self-portrait the artist created, is the quiet star of Weinstein Gallery's booth. Priced at $15 million, the tiny work was painted for the poet José Bartoli, who kept it in his possession for half a century, and today it comes from the personal collection of gallery founder Rowland Weinstein. The timing for its appearance is also apt, with Kahlo becoming the most expensive woman artist at auction during last month's New York sales.
"My whole career has been about promoting who I thought were the great unsung women artists and particularly the Surrealists," Weinstein told Artsy. Indeed, the entire presentation at the Californian gallery's booth draws from the gallerist's personal collection. Another standout, Leonora Carrington's painting Sueño (Nephesh as the Soul in a State of Sleep) (1959), depicts a mystical procession featuring mythological animals and divine ghostly figures.
The booth also features the first living artist the gallerist has shown in two decades: American painter Maria Kreyn, who creates fantastical, stormy landscapes. Kreyn's four works are priced at $30,000 apiece."
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