The Guardian view on Frida Kahlo: forging her own identity | Editorial

Her value is not in her stupendous auction prices, but in her hard-won road to artistic greatnessA late self-portrait by Frida Kahlo sold this week at a New York auction house for $34.9m. That makes her the most expensive Latin American artist ever, eclipsing her husband, Diego Rivera, whose reputation, as well as his prices, once outshone hers. Kahlo, nearly 70 years after her death aged 47, has become one of the most famous self-depicted faces in art. Her visage, with its confrontational gaze