$17,000
Frida Kahlo (Mexico, 1907 - 1954) framed mixed media on paper drawing depicting Frida Kahlo's portrait and titled "Autorretrato" and signed to upper left "Frida Kahlo 51". Has a framed height of 23" with width of 19", and has a sight image height of 19-5/8" with width of 15-5/8". Comes complete with two (2) letters of provenance. In overall good condition, all measurements are approximate.It is our recommendation that all pieces must be examined in person by perspective clients or a dealer they have asked to give them a condition report. This is consistent with our terms of sale that all goods are sold as is and all sales are final.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 her inability to possess him completely. A grisly accident occurred when she was a teenager: a streetcar hit the bus in which she was riding and dro Read more…
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2017-06-17
