4 most expensive works of Latin American art

Below we tell you about some of the most expensive works of Latin American art

We have often wondered how much our favorite works of Latin American art cost. Below we will tell you which ones have been some of the most expensive and the price for which they have been purchased.

The rivals – Diego Rivera
According to the Cultura Colectiva portal, the oil on canvas painted in 1931 was sold for the sum of 9.7 million dollars in one of the best art auction houses, Christie's, which belonged to the Rockefeller family. . The irony of all this is that Rivera made a mural called The Man at the Crossroads in Rockefeller Center commissioned by Rockefeller himself, but the final result, which was composed of communist symbols and figures, did not please the magnate and he He asked the artist to change Lenin's face to that of a worker, which led to a big argument between Rivera and Rockefeller.

Diego surpassed his wife Frida Khalo's work Two Nudes in the Forest (The Earth Itself), which sold for $8 million in 2016.

Troubadour – Rufino Tamayo
Another Mexican is part of this list of the most expensive works of Latin American art. Rufino Tamayo was a modernist artist, considered one of the best Mexican painters of greatest importance in the 20th century and who became the most sought-after artist in Latin America. In the work of him Troubadour of him, according to the portal El Siglo de Torreón, the artist broke his own record, which he had established in 1993 with the painting América (Mural) at Christie's auction house . Troubadour was purchased for the sum of 7.2 million dollars during an auction on May 29, 2008. According to the Cultura Colectivo portal, this piece is one of the painter's least known as it has been exhibited on very few occasions.

Roots – Frida Khalo
The painting was carried out by the Mexican artist in 1943 and in this she is, once again, the protagonist of the work. According to the El País portal, the value paid by a buyer whose identity is unknown was 5.6 million dollars in an auction organized by the important auction house, Sotheby's in New York. According to this same portal, in the year that the work finished the artist was marrying for the second time with the love of her life and also muralist Diego Rivera. The work was sold in May 2006 and shows that although it was an expensive work, it does not surpass that of her husband Diego Rivera.

Endless Nudes – Roberto Matta
There is also room on the list for other important artists such as the Chilean Roberto Matta, who is considered an important representative of surrealism. According to the emol.com portal, in 2009 the Chilean's Endless Nudes was considered one of the most outstanding works by the artist ever auctioned. The work was auctioned at Sotheby's in 2009 for much less than the other works we have shown, but for a good amount of money: two million dollars. According to the Cultura Colectiva portal, the work is one of the artist's most beloved, to carry it out he was inspired by a trip to Mexico that he took in the same year it was made, 1941. \