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In this painting, Frida paints herself, precisely her legs and feet, lying in a bath of grey water. The painting was included in Kahlo's first solo exhibit at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City in November 1938. [2] [3] It is now part of the private collection of Surrealist art collector Daniel Filipacchi. [4]
Her paintings raised the interest of surrealist artist André Breton, who arranged for Kahlo's first solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1938; the exhibition was a success and was followed by another in Paris in 1939.
Kahlo painted The Two Fridas in 1939, the same year she divorced artist Diego Rivera, [1] although they remarried a year later. According to Kahlo's friend, Fernando Gamboa, the painting was inspired by two paintings that Kahlo saw earlier that year at the Louvre: Théodore Chassériau's The Two Sisters and the anonymous Gabrielle d'Estrées and One of Her Sisters.
Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico 1954 Frida in Flames (Self-Portrait Inside of a Sunflower) [15] Oil on canvas, mounted on wood, 23.8 x 32.4 cm [3] Private collection, United States [3] 1954 Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick: El Marxismo dará salud a los enfermos: Oil on masonite, 76 x 61 cm Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico 1954
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter active between 1925 and 1954. She began painting while bedridden due to a bus accident that left her seriously injured. Most of her work consists of self-portraits, which deal directly with her struggle with medical issues, infertility, and her troubeparate Frida on which to project her anguish and pain. [2]
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) was a Mexican painter whose works, including many self-portraits, made her a symbol of Mexican culture, feminism, and LGBT culture. [2] Many of her surrealist works depict moments in her life, often tragic ones, due to her tumultuous marriage to artist Diego Rivera and her recurring health issues.