LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on metal

Measurements:

9.84 in. (25.00 cm.) (height) by 11.89 in. (30.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'FRIDA KAHLO 1939' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Mexico City, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, April 1953, no. 24. Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; La Jolla, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California; Phoenix Art Museum; Austin, University Art Museum, The University of Texas; Houston, The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston; and Purchase, The Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Frida Kahlo (1910-1954) , January 1978–January 1979, p. 10 (illustrated). Madrid, Salas Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) , April–June 1985, p. 50 (illustrated). Paris, Printemps Haussmann, Frida Kahlo , February–March 1992, p. 32 (illustrated). Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Visión de mujeres-Europalia , October-December 1993. Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación “la Caixa” and Barcelona, Centre Cultural de la Fundació “la Caixa”, Tarsila do Amaral, Frida Kahlo, Amelia Peláez , February–July 1997, p. 130, no. 37 (illustrated in color). Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo , January-June 1998, no. 22. Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art; Osaka, Suntory Museum; Nagoya City Art Museum; and Kochi, The Museum of Art, Women Surrealists in Mexico , July 2003-February 2004, p. 81, no. 26 (illustrated in color). London, Tate Modern, Frida Kahlo , June–October 2005, p. 115, no. 27 (illustrated in color). Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and San Francisco Museum of Art, Frida Kahlo , October 2007–January 2008, p. 176, no. 38 (illustrated in color). Bronx, The New York Botanical Garden, Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life , May-November 2015, p. 69, no. 6 (illustrated in color)

Literature:

I. Buck, Frida Kahlo in Courage, Berlin, vol. 7, no. 4, April 1982, p. 27 (illustrated). H. Herrera, Frida, A Biography of Frida Kahlo, New York, Harper & Row, 1983, p. 198 (Illustrated). W. Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement , Boston, London and New York, 1985, p. 127 (illustrated). M. Zamora, Frida el pincel de la angustia , Mexico City, 1987, p. 307 (illustrated). E. Bartra, Mujer, ideologi´a y arte: ideologi´a y poli´tica en Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera, Barcelona, 1987 (illustrated). H. Prignitz-Poda, et. al., Frida Kahlo: Das Gesamtwerk , Frankfurt am main, 1988, p. 151, no. 69 (illustrated in color). M. Zamora, trans. M.S. Smith, Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish, San Francisco, 1990, p. 67 (illustrated in color). H. Herrera, Frida Kahlo: The Paintings , New York, 1991, p. 127 (illustrated). A. Kettenmann, Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954, Leid und Leidenschaft , Cologne, 1992, p. 56 (illustrated in color). E. Herausgegeben, Das Blaue Haus, Die Welt Der Frida Kahlo , Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, 1993, p. 127, no. 43 (illustrated in color). M. Weller, "I Paint My Own Reality" Frida Kahlo , San Francisco, 1995, p. 37 (illustrated in color and in notecard). L. M. Lozano, Frida Kahlo, Mexico City, Spanish Edition, 2000, p. 154 (illustrated in color). L. M. Lozano, Frida Kahlo, Milan, Italian Edition, 2001, p. 154 (illustrated in color). H. Prignitz-Poda, Frida Kahlo: The Painter and Her Work , New York, Schirmer/Mosel, 2003, p. 133, no. 15 (illustrated in color). R. Casanova, et. al., Frida's Frida , Mexico City, Fomento Cultural Banamex, 2007, pp. 190-191 (illustrated in color). G. Souter, Kahlo, New York, 2011, p. 119 (illustrated)

Provenance:

Dolores del Río, Mexico (gift from the artist). Lewis A. Riley, Newport Beach, California (by descent from the above, circa 1983); Christie's, New York, 21 November 1989, lot 17. Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York (acquired at the above sale). Acquired from the above by the present owner