LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

46.50 x 32 in. (118.1 x 81.3 cm.)

Exhibited:

Mexico City, Museo de la Ciudad Universitaria, Homenaje a 5 pintores mexicanos desaparecidos, 1958. Dallas, Meadows Museum, Frida Kahlo, 17 February - 16 April 1989, Hamburg, Bucerius Kunstforum, Frida Kahlo, 15 June - 17 September 2006, p. 32 (illustrated in color). Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Frida Kahlo Retrospective, 30 April - 9 August 2010, p. 91 (illustrated in color). This exhibition also traveled to Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum 1 September - 10 December 2010. Copenhagen, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Frida Kahlo: A Life in Art, 2 September 2013 - 12 January 2014, p. 43 (illustrated in color). Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, Frida Kahlo, 20 March - 31 August 2014, p. 27 and 113 (illustrated in color). Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, Frida Kahlo e Diego Rivera 20 September 2014 - 8 February 2015, p. 99 (illustrated in color). Venice, Palazzo Ducale, Henri Rousseau: Archaic Naiveté, 6 March - 5 July 2015, p. 237 (illustrated in color). São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Frida Kahlo: Conexão entre mulheres surrealistas no México, 27 September 2015 - 10 January 2016 p. 86 (illustrated in color). The exhibition also traveled to Rio de Janeiro and Brasília. Prague, The National Gallery, Celnik Douanier Rousseau, 15 September 2016 - 15 January 2017, p. 67 (illustrated in color). Poznan, Centrum Kultury Zamek, Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera, 28 September 2017 - 21 January 2018, pp. 106-109 (illustrated in color). Moscow, Manezh, Viva la vida: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, 21 December 2018 - 12 March 2019. This exhibition also traveled to Saint Petersburgh, Fabergé Museum, Saint Petersburg, 20 March 2019 - 19 May 2019.

Literature:

H. Prignitz-Poda, et al., Frida Kahlo: Das Gesamtwerk, Frankfurt, Verlag Neue Kritik, 1988, p. 93 (illustrated in color). H. Herrera: Frida Kahlo. The Paintings, New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1991, p. 55 (illustrated in color). S. Grimberg: Frida Kahlo, New York, JG Press,1997, p. 47 (illustrated in color). C. Monsiváis et al., Frida Kahlo, Mexico City, Landucci Editores, 2000, p. 70 (illustrated in color). H. Prignitz-Poda, Frida Kahlo: The Painter and Her Work, Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 2003, p.p. 73 - 75 (illustrated in color). G. Souter: Frida Kahlo. Beneath the Mirror New York, Parkstone Press, 2005, p. 22 (illustrated in color). R. Casanova et al., Frida's Frida Mexico City, Fomento Cultural Banamex, 2007, p. 283 (illustrated in color). G. Souter, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), New York, Parkstone Press, 2012, p.p. 32 - 33 (illustrated in color). S. Grimberg, et al., “Two Frida Kahlo Portraits: One Found, One Confirmed” IFAR Journal vol. 14, no. 3 (2013), pp. 22-30 (illustrated in color and on the cover).

Provenance:

Gift of the artist to Lola Álvarez Bravo. Private collection, Texas. Acquired from the above by the present owner.