Estate of Mary Eaton, California
Private Collection, California
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau; Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Frida Kahlo Retrospective, April - December 2010, cat. no. 123, p. 199, illustrated in color 

Dr. Salomon Grimberg & Hayden Herrera, Frida Kahlo. Song to Herself, New York 2008, p. 112, illustrated 

This work is in good condition overall. The media layer is stable. Very faint horizontal creases are present throughout the work. Two faint diagonal two-inch creases are present in the lower left quadrant. A few pinpoint spots of foxing are present along the edges of the sheet outside the central composition. Three pinpoint deep brown discolorations are present at the lower right extreme edge of the sheet. The sheet has been hinged to the mat at the upper edge.
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"Frida is the only example in the history of art of an artist who tore open her chest and heart to reveal the biological truth of her feelings...a superior painter and the greatest proof of the renaissance of the art of Mexico." —Diego Rivera, 1943