Frida Kahlo - "The Two Fridas"
 
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Framed Size : 23.5" x 23.5"
Image Size: 16" x 16"
Hanging hardware included on back of frame
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The Two Fridas - a Picture of Heartbreak
Two Fridas is a portrait of love, heart-break and duality. This double self portrait was painted by Frida Kahlo in 1939 as an oil on canvas, shortly after her husband Diego Rivera asked her for a divorce. The original Two Fridas was almost life-sized and was Kahlo's largest painting. Most of Kahlo's work was much smaller as she was often confined to her bed because of ill health. It also achieved the highest fee for a painting during her lifetime as it was purchased for four thousand pesos by the Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City in 1947. They paid an additional thirty six pesos for the frame.
Although Kahlo painted a number of self portraits following her divorce and illustrated her feelings through them, this piece is particularly striking, revealing two sides of her self and her identity. Although a lot of symbology appears within her paintings. Kahlo tended to reject the label "surrealist" as she claimed that she painted her own reality. This picture features the two Fridas, sitting upon a bench holding hands. Dark,stormy clouds dominate the background of the painting and set the mood and the tone. Kahlo's marriage to Rivera, who was also an artist, was known to be stormy and filled with infidelities.