Diego Rivera
Portrait of Frida Kahlo (Retrato de Frida Kahlo)c. 1935

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Diego Rivera
Mexico, 1886-1957
Title: Portrait of Frida Kahlo (Retrato de Frida Kahlo)
Date Made: c. 1935
Medium: Oil on asbestos cement shingle
Dimensions: 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)
Credit Line: The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number: M.2004.283.1
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: This is Diego Rivera’s only known easel portrait of his wife, Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). The work, which dates from a turbulent period in the couple's life, was kept by Rivera in his studio until his untimely death in 1957. The blue and green background recalls some of Henri Matisse's (1869–1954) portraits, with the use of bold fields of color to frame the sitter's face.

Ilona Katzew, 2023
Copyright: © 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.

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Diego Rivera
Mexico, 1886-1957
Title: Portrait of Frida Kahlo (Retrato de Frida Kahlo)
Date Made: c. 1935
Medium: Oil on asbestos cement shingle
Dimensions: 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)
Credit Line: The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number: M.2004.283.1
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: This is Diego Rivera’s only known easel portrait of his wife, Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). The work, which dates from a turbulent period in the couple's life, was kept by Rivera in his studio until his untimely death in 1957. The blue and green background recalls some of Henri Matisse's (1869–1954) portraits, with the use of bold fields of color to frame the sitter's face.

Ilona Katzew, 2023
Copyright: © 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.