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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
The Frida Kahlo Museum (Spanish: Museo Frida Kahlo), also known as the Blue House (La Casa Azul) for the structure's cobalt-blue walls, is a historic house museum and art museum dedicated to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. It is in the Colonia del Carmen neighborhood of Coyoacán in Mexico City.
The painting is notable as the first work by a 20th-century Mexican artist to be purchased by a major international museum, when it was acquired by the Louvre in 1939. The painting is now shown at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in the Centre Pompidou in Paris. [4] It was the only sale Kahlo made in her Paris exhibition. [5]
Donating her entire collection of art including pre-Hispanic, colonial, folk, modern and contemporary art, the Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum hosts the greatest collection of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Angelina Beloff artworks. Upon Olmedo's death in 2002, she left funds for taking care of her museum, now open to the public.
Frida Kahlo painting Henry Ford Hospital 1932.jpeg 356 × 280; 96 KB Frida Kahlo Self-portrait with monkey 1938.jpg 270 × 368; 104 KB Frida Kahlo, 1937, Memory, the Heart, oil on metal, 40 x 28 cm.jpg 250 × 398; 19 KB
This painting is the only image of an orchid in her artwork. [18] A horizon line cuts through the background of the painting, in the distance is Ford's River Rouge complex. [19] Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo had come to Detroit because Edsel Ford [20] had commissioned the Detroit Industry murals for the Detroit Institute of Arts. [11]