Portrait of Frida Kahlo (Retrato de Frida Kahlo)

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© Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museum Trust. Reproduction of Diego Rivera governed by Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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Portrait of Frida Kahlo (Retrato de Frida Kahlo)

Mexico, circa 1939
Paintings
Oil on asbestos cement shingle
Canvas: 14 × 9 3/4 in. (35.56 × 24.77 cm) Frame: 19 × 14 3/4 × 1 3/4 in. (48.26 × 37.47 × 4.45 cm)
The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art (M.2004.283.1)
Latin American Art
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Curator Notes

This is Diego Rivera's only known easel portrait of his wife. The image is hauntingly similar to Frida Kahlo's own self-portraits....
This is Diego Rivera's only known easel portrait of his wife. The image is hauntingly similar to Frida Kahlo's own self-portraits. Rivera's work probably dates from the late 1930s, the period of their brief divorce before their remarriage in 1940. The painting was found in Rivera's studio at the time of his death. Ilona Katzew, 2008
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Bibliography

  • Nieto, Margarita.  Mexican Masterpieces from the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1997.