In November 2021, it sold at auction in Sotheby's New York for US$34.9 million, a record for a Kahlo work, and for a work by a Latin American artist.

[1] It shattered the record previously held by the painting The Rivals (1931)[2] by her husband Diego Rivera (1886-1957) who appears on her forehead in this work.

[3] It is the last fully realized "bust" self-portrait Kahlo completed before her death in 1954.

[4][5] The purchaser was Eduardo Costantini, the founder of MALBA, the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, who bought it for his private collection.

[1] The painting had previously sold at Sotheby's in 1990 for $1.4 million.