Frida Kahlo

(Mexican, 1907–1954)

Frida Kahlo was a celebrated Mexican painter known for her complex self-portraits. Inspired by pre-Columbian artifacts and Mexican folk art, Kahlo produced bizarre yet beautiful works which the Surrealist André Breton once described as a “ribbon around a bomb.” “My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently,” she once said of her work. “My painting contains in it the message of pain.” Born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo Calderón on July 6, 1907, in Mexico City, Mexico to a German-born father and Mexican mother, she studied philosophy and medicine as a youth. At the age of 18, Kahlo was involved in a traumatic bus accident that left her badly injured and confined to a bed for months. During her slow recovery, she took up painting from her bed, and subsequently abandoned her academic pursuits. Able to leave her house once more in 1927, she joined the Mexican Communist Party and through mutual friends was introduced to the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. The two artists married in 1929, maintaining a tumultuous and often combative relationship over the years, in which both were unfaithful. Kahlo’s several lovers included the photographer Nickolas Murray, the sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and the exiled Communist leader Leon Trotsky. Though Kahlo and Rivera divorced in 1939, they remarried a year later. During the following decade, Kahlo painted prolifically and was the subject exhibitions in both the United States and Europe, despite chronic pain and destabilizing health problems. She died in Mexico City, Mexico on July 13, 1954 at the age of 47. In 1958, her home, La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in which she was born and died, was converted into the Museo Frida Kahlo. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and the National Museum of Women in the Art in Washington, D.C., among others.

Frida Kahlo News

Art & Exhibitions

See Frida Kahlo in Her Element in a New York Show of Rare Photographs

See Frida Kahlo in Her Element in a New York Show of Rare Photographs

Archaeology & History

The Hunt: How Frida Kahlo’s Final Painting Vanished Into Storage

by Tim Brinkhof

The Hunt: How Frida Kahlo’s Final Painting Vanished Into Storage

Art Bites: Why Frida Kahlo Hated the French Surrealists

by Verity Babbs

Art Bites: Why Frida Kahlo Hated the French Surrealists

Frida Kahlo Artworks

Frida Kahlo (100 results)

Autorretrato con Chango y Loro, 1942

Frida Kahlo

Autorretrato con Chango y Loro, 1942

Sale Date: May 17, 1995

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Autoretrato, 1950

Frida Kahlo

Autoretrato, 1950

Sale Date: May 17, 1995

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Autorretrato vacilando - sol y luna, 1946

Frida Kahlo

Autorretrato vacilando - sol y luna, 1946

Sale Date: November 17, 1994

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Olga, 1949

Frida Kahlo

Sale Date: November 17, 1994

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Sin t¡tulo, 1941

Frida Kahlo

Sin t¡tulo, 1941

Sale Date: November 17, 1994

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MY DRESS HANGS HERE, 1933–1938

Frida Kahlo

MY DRESS HANGS HERE, 1933–1938

Sale Date: May 17, 1993

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EL ABORTO, 1932

Frida Kahlo

EL ABORTO, 1932

Sale Date: May 20, 1992

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AUTORRETRATO VACILANDO SOL Y LUNA, 1946

Frida Kahlo

AUTORRETRATO VACILANDO SOL Y LUNA, 1946

Sale Date: May 19, 1992

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EL SALON DE BELLEZA, 1932

Frida Kahlo

EL SALON DE BELLEZA, 1932

Sale Date: May 19, 1992

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RECUERDO, 1937

Frida Kahlo

RECUERDO, 1937

Sale Date: May 18, 1992

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SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BONITO 1941, 1941

Frida Kahlo

SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BONITO 1941, 1941

Sale Date: September 19, 1991

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AUTORRETRATO CON PELO SUELTO (SELF-PORTRAIT..., 1947

Frida Kahlo

AUTORRETRATO CON PELO SUELTO (SELF-PORTRAIT..., 1947

Sale Date: May 15, 1991

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BOCETA PARA MIS ABUELOS, MIS PADRES Y YO, 1943–1943

Frida Kahlo

BOCETA PARA MIS ABUELOS, MIS PADRES Y YO, 1943–1943

Sale Date: November 21, 1990

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FRIDA AND THE ABORTION (8TH PROOF), 1932–1932

Frida Kahlo

FRIDA AND THE ABORTION (8TH PROOF), 1932–1932

Sale Date: November 21, 1990

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Untitled

Frida Kahlo

Sale Date: November 20, 1990

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DIEGO Y YO (DIEGO AND I), 1949–1949

Frida Kahlo

DIEGO Y YO (DIEGO AND I), 1949–1949

Sale Date: May 2, 1990

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Still life, 1928–1929

Frida Kahlo

Still life, 1928–1929

Sale Date: May 2, 1990

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Ella juega sola o niña con máscara de..., 1938–1938

Frida Kahlo

Ella juega sola o niña con máscara de..., 1938–1938

Sale Date: November 21, 1989

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La tierra misma o dos desnudos en la..., 1939–1939

Frida Kahlo

La tierra misma o dos desnudos en la..., 1939–1939

Sale Date: November 21, 1989

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RETRATO DE MRS. JEAN WIGHT, 1931–1931

Frida Kahlo

RETRATO DE MRS. JEAN WIGHT, 1931–1931

Sale Date: November 21, 1989

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Tu suegra cantina, 1927–1927

Frida Kahlo

Tu suegra cantina, 1927–1927

Sale Date: May 16, 1989

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Frida and the abortion, 1932–1932

Frida Kahlo

Frida and the abortion, 1932–1932

Sale Date: November 22, 1988

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Autorretrato con Diego en mi pecho
, 1953–1954

Frida Kahlo

Autorretrato con Diego en mi pecho , 1953–1954

Sale Date: November 21, 1988

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Still life, 1925–1925

Frida Kahlo

Still life, 1925–1925

Sale Date: November 21, 1988

Auction Closed

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