Frida Kahlo 1907-1954
Frida’s Plaster Corset with a Hammer and Sickle (and Unborn Baby), ca. 1950
dry plaster and mixed media
46 cm hip 44 cm waist 52 cm chest 42 cm hight
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
From Artist to Francisco González de la Fuente, Granja, Mexicoby descent Jesús Gonzáles Vaquero
By bequest to private collection
Acquired from the above, Fransisco Javier Lumbreras, Artemundi
Private collection
Exhibitions
2019 Brooklyn Museum New York2018 Victoria and Albert Museum; London
2015 Mirror, Mirror portraits of Frida Kahlo; Throckmorton Gallery; New York
2014 / 2015 Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Palazzo Ducale; Genova
2014 Frida Kahlo, Palaexpo, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
2013 Frida and Diego, High Museum of Atlanta
2012 Frida and Diego, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2010 Frida Kahlo Retropsektive, Kunstforum Wein, Vienna
2010 Frida Kahlo Retrospektive, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin
2007 Frida Kahlo, 1907-2007, Homenaje Nacional: 100th anniversary, Museum of the Fine Arts Palace, México City.
2007 La Mirada de un Anticuario, Banco Nacional de México y Fomento Cultural Banamex, Palacio de Iturbide, Mexico City
Literature
Flores Caballero, del Conde, Iturbide, Rosenzweig, Turok, El Ropero de Frida. México: Zweig Editoras, illustration p. 49Eddy, Melissa Frida Kahlo retrospective opens in Berlin, Associated Press Online, May, 2010
Garduño, Ana and Jesús González Vaquero, La Mirada de un Anticuario. México: Fomento Cultural Banamex, 2007, p. 18
Grimberg, Salomon, Frida Kahlo. North Dighton, Ma: World Publications Group, 2006, illustrated in color p. 32
Herrera, Hayden, Frida Kahlo: Las Pinturas (1986), México: Diana 1986 and 2005, illustrated in color p. 180, text p.197
Kettenmann, Andrea, Kahlo. Köln: Taschen Gmbh, 2003, ref. P. 68 and p. 91 Laidlaw, Jill A., Frida Kahlo. Barcelona: 2004, p. 38
Mosiváis, Bartra, Martín Lozano, Villareal, Frida Kahlo: Un Homenaje. México: Ed. Artes de México, 2004, p. 65
Mosiváis, Carlos and Vázquez Bayod, Rafael, Frida Kahlo, Una Vida, Una Obra. México: Ediciones ERA, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1992, p. 46 and illustrated on p. 167
Prignitz-Poda, Helga, Frida Kahlo: Das Gesamtwerk (Catalogue Raisonné) (1988). No. 41, illustrated in color p. 106
Prignitz-Poda, Helga, Frida Kahlo: Retrospektive. Munchen: Prestel, 2010, cat 158 illustrated in color p. 243
Zamora, Martha, Frida, El Pincel de la Angustia. México: Marta Zamora 1987 and 2007, p. 109, illus. in color and p. 206 with Diego Rivera b/w photographed by Juan Guzman in 1950.
Zamora, Martha, Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish. San Francisco: Chronicle Books 1990, p. 119 and illustrated in color p. 127