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Yasumasa Morimura
An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Collar of Thorns)2001

Not on view
Circular decorative object with a central painted portrait of a woman with a dark unibrow, red lips, and a pink headpiece, flanked by a monkey and a cat, surrounded by concentric rings of fabric flowers and turquoise sequin rosettes

Yasumasa Morimura, An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Collar of Thorns), 2001, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, digital image © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Yasumasa Morimura
Japan, Osaka, born 1951
Title
An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Collar of Thorns)
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
2001
Medium
Dye diffusion thermal transfer print
Dimensions
Depth: 8 1/2 × 84 × 84 in. (21.59 × 213.36 × 213.36 cm) Frame: 84 × 84 × 8 1/2 in. (213.36 × 213.36 × 21.59 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
M.2002.122
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Irmas, Deborah. This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.
Copyright
© Yasumasa Morimura; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

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