Marianne / Frida Khalo [after Guillermo Kahlo]

2013
print & cutting on prepared paper
34 x 34 cm [unframed]
50 x 50 cm [framed]
edition of 5
• 1/5
• 2/5
• 3/5
• 4/5
• 5/5 Collection: Irina Ivanova, Kiev, Ukraine

Original photograph by Guillermo Kahlo Oct 16, 1932. First released in 2007

Frida Kahlo de Rivera (born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón; July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, who is best known for her self-portraits.

Kahlo had a volatile marriage with the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera. She suffered lifelong health problems. Many of her health problems were the result of a traffic accident she survived as a teenager. Recovering from her injuries isolated her from other people and this isolation influenced her works, many of which are self-portraits of one sort or another. Kahlo suggested, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."She also stated, "I was born a bitch. I was born a painter."