NEW YORK (AP) – A rediscovered painting by Frida Kahlo is going to auction this month in New York.
The 1929 portrait, called “Niña con collar” or “Girl with necklace,” will be part of Sotheby’s Latin America: Modern Art sale on Nov. 22. Its pre-sale estimate is $1.5 million to $2 million.
Kahlo’s husband, artist Diego Rivera, gave the work to her personal assistant in 1955, the year after she died.
Until it surfaced over the summer, the only record of the portrait had been a black-and-white photo.
The work was painted before Kahlo and Rivera were married; they had no children, according to Axel Stein, Sotheby’s head of Latin American Art.