Kahlo's self-portrait work 'Diego y yo' (Diego And I) is the centrepiece of the new 'Tercer ojo' (Third Eye) exhibit at the Malba Museum in Buenos Aires. Photo: AFP
Visitors to Buenos Aires will have the chance to marvel at the most expensive work by a Latin American artist ever to sell at auction - a self-portrait by Frida Kahlo (1907-1954).
The Mexican artist's work Diego y yo (Diego And I) is the centrepiece of the new Tercer ojo (Third Eye) exhibit at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires - also known as the Malba - which opened recently.
The museum's founder, Argentinian entrepreneur Eduardo Costantini, bought the painting at auction in New York last November for the record sum of US$34.9mil (RM157mil).
Completed in 1949, Diego y yo shows Kahlo's own face with her husband Diego Rivera depicted in the middle of her forehead.
The paining is her final self-portrait, created five years before her death in 1954.
It represents her passionate but difficult relationship with the famous muralist, from whom she divorced at some point before the couple remarried in 1940.
The painting was last on public display in 1998, before it was purchased by a private collection in the US.
In 2021, it was sold off at auction, fetching the highest price ever paid for Latin American art.
Tecer ojose combines Costantini's private collection and works from the Malba, with 240 pieces by Latin American artists like Diego Rivera, Tarsila do Amaral, Xul Solar, Joaquín Torres García, Emilio Pettoruti, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Maria Martins, Remedios Varo, Antonio Berni and Jorge de la Vega on display. - dpa
