Frida Kahlo
Weeping Coconuts (Cocos gimientes)1951

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Frida Kahlo
Mexico, 1907-1954
Title: Weeping Coconuts (Cocos gimientes)
Date Made: 1951
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: Frame: 14 × 16 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (35.56 × 42.55 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line: The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number: M.2004.283.2
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: Known primarily for her haunting self-portraits, Frida Kahlo undertook still-life painting at the end of her life, when her health drastically deteriorated. In Weeping Coconuts (Cocos gimientes), the fruits undergo a disturbing anthropomorphic animation. Kahlo began to paint in 1925, while recovering from a streetcar accident that left her permanently disabled. She underwent more than thirty operations, and many of her approximately two hundred paintings explore her experiences with pain. They also chronicle her turbulent relationship with Diego Rivera, whom she married in 1929.
Ilona Katzew, 2008
Selected Bibliography: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
Sileo, Diego, editor. Frida Kahlo: Beyond the Myth. Milan: Museo delle Culture, 2018.
Copyright: © Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museum Trust. Reproduction of Frida Kahlo governed by Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Frida Kahlo
Mexico, 1907-1954
Title: Weeping Coconuts (Cocos gimientes)
Date Made: 1951
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: Frame: 14 × 16 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (35.56 × 42.55 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line: The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number: M.2004.283.2
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: Known primarily for her haunting self-portraits, Frida Kahlo undertook still-life painting at the end of her life, when her health drastically deteriorated. In Weeping Coconuts (Cocos gimientes), the fruits undergo a disturbing anthropomorphic animation. Kahlo began to paint in 1925, while recovering from a streetcar accident that left her permanently disabled. She underwent more than thirty operations, and many of her approximately two hundred paintings explore her experiences with pain. They also chronicle her turbulent relationship with Diego Rivera, whom she married in 1929.
Ilona Katzew, 2008
Selected Bibliography: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
Sileo, Diego, editor. Frida Kahlo: Beyond the Myth. Milan: Museo delle Culture, 2018.
Copyright: © Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museum Trust. Reproduction of Frida Kahlo governed by Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.