Print, limited edition on Fabriano Cotton Privilege paper.
Dimensions: 50 cm x 70 cm (sheet)
Each print is individually numbered.
Inscription in pencil, top left: 106/250; bottom right: facsimile “Frida Kahlo.”
The publisher’s dry stamp is at the bottom, and a hologram is on the reverse.
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who lived in the first half of the 20th century. She was born in 1907 into a large family in the suburbs of Mexico City. Her father was an artist—he worked in photography and painting. He inspired his daughter with his passion when she was eighteen—from that point on, Frida abandoned her dreams of becoming a doctor to devote herself to capturing the world, whether on canvas or through the lens of a camera.
Her art clearly drew on Mexican and Indigenous cultures. As a result, it was often regarded as a form of primitivism—that is, naive art—as well as folk art or surrealist art. The artist had health problems from childhood onward. At the age of six, she contracted polio, and a few years later, she was involved in a traffic accident. As a result, she suffered very serious injuries, including a spinal fracture. Although she managed to walk again after a long period of rehabilitation, she struggled with pain resulting from the earlier incident for the rest of her life.
