$14,000
Frida Kahlo (Mexico, 1907 - 1954) unframed pastel drawing on paper depicting a portrait of Frida Kahlo and titled "Auto Retrato" or "Self Portrait", executed in 1941. Measures 15-7/8" in height with width of 13-1/2" & signed to upper right "Mexico Frida Kahlo 1941". All measurements are approximate. Complete with certificate of authenticity & letter of provenance, please see photographs. Also included is the original bill of sale signed by Frida Kahlo, wherein this piece was originally purchased by the actress Paulette Goddard on January 3, 1941. This piece was probably a commissioned piece, note dates. (See photographs for this as well.) Provenance: comes from the estate of a prominent Texas collector, whose family had acquired it as a gift from the actress Paulette Goddard. Magdalena Carmen Frida Calderon (Frida Kahlo) was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City, the daughter of a German Jewish father & a Mexican mother. She lived her adult life in the shadow of her husband, famed muralist & Mexican national hero Diego Rivera whom she had known since childhood. They embarked on their violent courtship following his divorce from his second wife. The were both temperamental & noisy Communists, & she proudly proclaimed that she had never been expelled from the communist party, as Diego was. He was obese, unfaithful, & psychologically abusive, yet Frida retaliated with her own bisexual affairs. Kahlo once called Rivera "the other accident" in her life, and she lamented he Read more…
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2016-12-17
