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Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird

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Year
  
1940

Artist
  
Frida Kahlo

Media
  
Oil paint

Created
  
1940

Medium
  
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
  
47 cm x 61 cm

Period
  
Naïve art

Genres
  
Self-portrait, Portrait

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Location
  
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin

Similar
  
Frida Kahlo artwork, Self-portraits, Naïve art artwork

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Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (Autorretrato con Collar de Espinas is a 1940 painting by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.

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Kahlo painted the self-portrait after her divorce from Diego Rivera and the end of her affair with photographer Nickolas Muray. The painting depicts Kahlo wearing a white dress with a monkey on her right shoulder and a cat on her left, wearing a necklace made of thorns and a dead hummingbird. The thorns dig into Kahlo's skin, making her bleed.

The painting is part of the Nickolas Muray Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Exhibition history

The University of Texas at Austin acquired the painting in 1966. Since 1990, it has appeared in several exhibitions internationally:

  • "Frida Kahlo," Philadelphia Museum of Art, February 20, 2008 - May 18, 2008
  • Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, May 5, 2009 - March 21, 2010
  • "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Activities of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 29, 2012 – May 6, 2012; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, June 7, 2012 - September 3, 2012; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, September 27, 2012 - Jan. 13, 2013.
  • "Frida Kahlo," Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, March 20, 2014 - August 31, 2014
  • Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, September 5, 2014 - April 26, 2015
  • "Frida: Art, Garden, Life," New York Botanical Garden, May 16, 2015 - November 1, 2015.

    • References

    Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird Wikipedia
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