MALBA — Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires
The Frida Kahlo that set the record price for the artist at the time of purchase hangs in a Palermo building won from a 450-entry global design competition.
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Collector Eduardo Costantini assembled Latin American art by paying record prices — $3.2M for the Kahlo in 1995, $15.7M for a Diego Rivera in 2016, $11.3M for a Leonora Carrington sculpture in 2024. In December 2025, MALBA added the entire 1,233-work Daros Latinamerica Collection, spanning 117 artists.
What to look for
- Frida Kahlo's Autorretrato con chango y loro (1942) — a self-portrait with a monkey and parrot that set the record price for Kahlo at the time of purchase
- Abaporu (1928) by Tarsila do Amaral, acquired in 1995 for nearly $1.5 million
- La Grande Dame (1951) by Leonora Carrington, a sculpture bought for $11.3 million in 2024
On Avenida Figueroa Alcorta in Palermo; the museum runs a cinema and cultural program alongside the permanent collection.
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