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FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954)

 
When Frida Kahlo died in 1954, a grief-stricken Diego Rivera had her belongings locked away for fifteen years, and her personal effects remained sealed, undisturbed, and undocumented until 2004 when the small room in the home her father built in Coyoacán, Mexico was opened to the world. Among the many belongings revealed at Casa Azul were her clothes, jewelry, drawings, letters, documents, and more than 6,500 photographs (among them works by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Man Ray, and Nickolas Muray) as well as the most personal and ironically moving item: the orthopedic plaster corsets she turned into an extension of herself. These harsh clinical objects assaulted her free-spirited nature, yet they remain today as the most palpable reminders that as she suffered through unbearable pain — over thirty surgeries, batteries of tests, X-rays, spinal taps, blood transfusions, physical therapy and strong pain killing drugs, she was an absolute survivor, not a victim.<br><br>It was Frida’s father, Guillermo who gave her his box of paints and brushes as she was recovering from the bus accident that had shattered her spine. The devastation she suffered is shown in excruciating detail in her 1944 painting, The Broken Column. Yet the first canvas she painted upon was the most convenient one — the plaster cast bodice encasing her body. As she related, she had dreamed of becoming a doctor, yet “to combat the boredom and pain (and) without giving it any particular thought, I started painting.” Later, her mother asked a carpenter to fashion an easel “if that’s what you can call the special apparatus which could be fixed to my bed because the plaster cast didn’t allow me to sit up.” (Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahol: 1907-1954: Pain and Passion, Taschen, 1999, pg. 18)<br><br>On this particular corset, Kahlo painted a blood-red Hammer and Sickle, the symbolic configuration representing proletarian solidarity — a union between the peasantry and working-class expressing her lifelong political sympathies and below, a developing fetus entering perhaps its third trimester, a reminder of the still deeper insult of the accident, the one that added a layer of suffering and regret to Frida’s personal tragedy — her inability to bear children. Frida’s corsets hardened around her resolve as much as her body, but they also speak of her almost unbearable longing. They are ruminations on the power of creativity to heal as well as demonstrations of Frida Kahlo’s unbounded capacity for confronting the very bodily enclosures that imprisoned her, transforming them, taking them over as much as she could, and turning them into something beautiful and expressive. When Frida Kahlo died in 1954, a grief-stricken Diego Rivera had her belongings locked away for fifteen years, and her personal effects remained sealed, undisturbed, and undocumented until 2004 when the small room in the home her father built in Coyoacán, Mexico was opened to the world. Among the many belongings revealed at Casa Azul were her clothes, jewelry, drawings, letters, documents, and more than 6,500 photographs (among them works by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Man Ray, and Nickolas Muray) as well as the most personal and ironically moving item: the orthopedic plaster corsets she turned into an extension of herself. These harsh clinical objects assaulted her free-spirited nature, yet they remain today as the most palpable reminders that as she suffered through unbearable pain — over thirty surgeries, batteries of tests, X-rays, spinal taps, blood transfusions, physical therapy and strong pain killing drugs, she was an absolute survivor, not a victim.<br><br>It was Frida’s father, Guillermo who gave her his box of paints and brushes as she was recovering from the bus accident that had shattered her spine. The devastation she suffered is shown in excruciating detail in her 1944 painting, The Broken Column. Yet the first canvas she painted upon was the most convenient one — the plaster cast bodice encasing her body. As she related, she had dreamed of becoming a doctor, yet “to combat the boredom and pain (and) without giving it any particular thought, I started painting.” Later, her mother asked a carpenter to fashion an easel “if that’s what you can call the special apparatus which could be fixed to my bed because the plaster cast didn’t allow me to sit up.” (Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahol: 1907-1954: Pain and Passion, Taschen, 1999, pg. 18)<br><br>On this particular corset, Kahlo painted a blood-red Hammer and Sickle, the symbolic configuration representing proletarian solidarity — a union between the peasantry and working-class expressing her lifelong political sympathies and below, a developing fetus entering perhaps its third trimester, a reminder of the still deeper insult of the accident, the one that added a layer of suffering and regret to Frida’s personal tragedy — her inability to bear children. Frida’s corsets hardened around her resolve as much as her body, but they also speak of her almost unbearable longing. They are ruminations on the power of creativity to heal as well as demonstrations of Frida Kahlo’s unbounded capacity for confronting the very bodily enclosures that imprisoned her, transforming them, taking them over as much as she could, and turning them into something beautiful and expressive. When Frida Kahlo died in 1954, a grief-stricken Diego Rivera had her belongings locked away for fifteen years, and her personal effects remained sealed, undisturbed, and undocumented until 2004 when the small room in the home her father built in Coyoacán, Mexico was opened to the world. Among the many belongings revealed at Casa Azul were her clothes, jewelry, drawings, letters, documents, and more than 6,500 photographs (among them works by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Man Ray, and Nickolas Muray) as well as the most personal and ironically moving item: the orthopedic plaster corsets she turned into an extension of herself. These harsh clinical objects assaulted her free-spirited nature, yet they remain today as the most palpable reminders that as she suffered through unbearable pain — over thirty surgeries, batteries of tests, X-rays, spinal taps, blood transfusions, physical therapy and strong pain killing drugs, she was an absolute survivor, not a victim.<br><br>It was Frida’s father, Guillermo who gave her his box of paints and brushes as she was recovering from the bus accident that had shattered her spine. The devastation she suffered is shown in excruciating detail in her 1944 painting, The Broken Column. Yet the first canvas she painted upon was the most convenient one — the plaster cast bodice encasing her body. As she related, she had dreamed of becoming a doctor, yet “to combat the boredom and pain (and) without giving it any particular thought, I started painting.” Later, her mother asked a carpenter to fashion an easel “if that’s what you can call the special apparatus which could be fixed to my bed because the plaster cast didn’t allow me to sit up.” (Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahol: 1907-1954: Pain and Passion, Taschen, 1999, pg. 18)<br><br>On this particular corset, Kahlo painted a blood-red Hammer and Sickle, the symbolic configuration representing proletarian solidarity — a union between the peasantry and working-class expressing her lifelong political sympathies and below, a developing fetus entering perhaps its third trimester, a reminder of the still deeper insult of the accident, the one that added a layer of suffering and regret to Frida’s personal tragedy — her inability to bear children. Frida’s corsets hardened around her resolve as much as her body, but they also speak of her almost unbearable longing. They are ruminations on the power of creativity to heal as well as demonstrations of Frida Kahlo’s unbounded capacity for confronting the very bodily enclosures that imprisoned her, transforming them, taking them over as much as she could, and turning them into something beautiful and expressive. When Frida Kahlo died in 1954, a grief-stricken Diego Rivera had her belongings locked away for fifteen years, and her personal effects remained sealed, undisturbed, and undocumented until 2004 when the small room in the home her father built in Coyoacán, Mexico was opened to the world. Among the many belongings revealed at Casa Azul were her clothes, jewelry, drawings, letters, documents, and more than 6,500 photographs (among them works by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Man Ray, and Nickolas Muray) as well as the most personal and ironically moving item: the orthopedic plaster corsets she turned into an extension of herself. These harsh clinical objects assaulted her free-spirited nature, yet they remain today as the most palpable reminders that as she suffered through unbearable pain — over thirty surgeries, batteries of tests, X-rays, spinal taps, blood transfusions, physical therapy and strong pain killing drugs, she was an absolute survivor, not a victim.<br><br>It was Frida’s father, Guillermo who gave her his box of paints and brushes as she was recovering from the bus accident that had shattered her spine. The devastation she suffered is shown in excruciating detail in her 1944 painting, The Broken Column. Yet the first canvas she painted upon was the most convenient one — the plaster cast bodice encasing her body. As she related, she had dreamed of becoming a doctor, yet “to combat the boredom and pain (and) without giving it any particular thought, I started painting.” Later, her mother asked a carpenter to fashion an easel “if that’s what you can call the special apparatus which could be fixed to my bed because the plaster cast didn’t allow me to sit up.” (Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahol: 1907-1954: Pain and Passion, Taschen, 1999, pg. 18)<br><br>On this particular corset, Kahlo painted a blood-red Hammer and Sickle, the symbolic configuration representing proletarian solidarity — a union between the peasantry and working-class expressing her lifelong political sympathies and below, a developing fetus entering perhaps its third trimester, a reminder of the still deeper insult of the accident, the one that added a layer of suffering and regret to Frida’s personal tragedy — her inability to bear children. Frida’s corsets hardened around her resolve as much as her body, but they also speak of her almost unbearable longing. They are ruminations on the power of creativity to heal as well as demonstrations of Frida Kahlo’s unbounded capacity for confronting the very bodily enclosures that imprisoned her, transforming them, taking them over as much as she could, and turning them into something beautiful and expressive. When Frida Kahlo died in 1954, a grief-stricken Diego Rivera had her belongings locked away for fifteen years, and her personal effects remained sealed, undisturbed, and undocumented until 2004 when the small room in the home her father built in Coyoacán, Mexico was opened to the world. Among the many belongings revealed at Casa Azul were her clothes, jewelry, drawings, letters, documents, and more than 6,500 photographs (among them works by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Man Ray, and Nickolas Muray) as well as the most personal and ironically moving item: the orthopedic plaster corsets she turned into an extension of herself. These harsh clinical objects assaulted her free-spirited nature, yet they remain today as the most palpable reminders that as she suffered through unbearable pain — over thirty surgeries, batteries of tests, X-rays, spinal taps, blood transfusions, physical therapy and strong pain killing drugs, she was an absolute survivor, not a victim.<br><br>It was Frida’s father, Guillermo who gave her his box of paints and brushes as she was recovering from the bus accident that had shattered her spine. The devastation she suffered is shown in excruciating detail in her 1944 painting, The Broken Column. Yet the first canvas she painted upon was the most convenient one — the plaster cast bodice encasing her body. As she related, she had dreamed of becoming a doctor, yet “to combat the boredom and pain (and) without giving it any particular thought, I started painting.” Later, her mother asked a carpenter to fashion an easel “if that’s what you can call the special apparatus which could be fixed to my bed because the plaster cast didn’t allow me to sit up.” (Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahol: 1907-1954: Pain and Passion, Taschen, 1999, pg. 18)<br><br>On this particular corset, Kahlo painted a blood-red Hammer and Sickle, the symbolic configuration representing proletarian solidarity — a union between the peasantry and working-class expressing her lifelong political sympathies and below, a developing fetus entering perhaps its third trimester, a reminder of the still deeper insult of the accident, the one that added a layer of suffering and regret to Frida’s personal tragedy — her inability to bear children. Frida’s corsets hardened around her resolve as much as her body, but they also speak of her almost unbearable longing. They are ruminations on the power of creativity to heal as well as demonstrations of Frida Kahlo’s unbounded capacity for confronting the very bodily enclosures that imprisoned her, transforming them, taking them over as much as she could, and turning them into something beautiful and expressive. When Frida Kahlo died in 1954, a grief-stricken Diego Rivera had her belongings locked away for fifteen years, and her personal effects remained sealed, undisturbed, and undocumented until 2004 when the small room in the home her father built in Coyoacán, Mexico was opened to the world. Among the many belongings revealed at Casa Azul were her clothes, jewelry, drawings, letters, documents, and more than 6,500 photographs (among them works by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Man Ray, and Nickolas Muray) as well as the most personal and ironically moving item: the orthopedic plaster corsets she turned into an extension of herself. These harsh clinical objects assaulted her free-spirited nature, yet they remain today as the most palpable reminders that as she suffered through unbearable pain — over thirty surgeries, batteries of tests, X-rays, spinal taps, blood transfusions, physical therapy and strong pain killing drugs, she was an absolute survivor, not a victim.<br><br>It was Frida’s father, Guillermo who gave her his box of paints and brushes as she was recovering from the bus accident that had shattered her spine. The devastation she suffered is shown in excruciating detail in her 1944 painting, The Broken Column. Yet the first canvas she painted upon was the most convenient one — the plaster cast bodice encasing her body. As she related, she had dreamed of becoming a doctor, yet “to combat the boredom and pain (and) without giving it any particular thought, I started painting.” Later, her mother asked a carpenter to fashion an easel “if that’s what you can call the special apparatus which could be fixed to my bed because the plaster cast didn’t allow me to sit up.” (Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahol: 1907-1954: Pain and Passion, Taschen, 1999, pg. 18)<br><br>On this particular corset, Kahlo painted a blood-red Hammer and Sickle, the symbolic configuration representing proletarian solidarity — a union between the peasantry and working-class expressing her lifelong political sympathies and below, a developing fetus entering perhaps its third trimester, a reminder of the still deeper insult of the accident, the one that added a layer of suffering and regret to Frida’s personal tragedy — her inability to bear children. Frida’s corsets hardened around her resolve as much as her body, but they also speak of her almost unbearable longing. They are ruminations on the power of creativity to heal as well as demonstrations of Frida Kahlo’s unbounded capacity for confronting the very bodily enclosures that imprisoned her, transforming them, taking them over as much as she could, and turning them into something beautiful and expressive. When Frida Kahlo died in 1954, a grief-stricken Diego Rivera had her belongings locked away for fifteen years, and her personal effects remained sealed, undisturbed, and undocumented until 2004 when the small room in the home her father built in Coyoacán, Mexico was opened to the world. Among the many belongings revealed at Casa Azul were her clothes, jewelry, drawings, letters, documents, and more than 6,500 photographs (among them works by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Man Ray, and Nickolas Muray) as well as the most personal and ironically moving item: the orthopedic plaster corsets she turned into an extension of herself. These harsh clinical objects assaulted her free-spirited nature, yet they remain today as the most palpable reminders that as she suffered through unbearable pain — over thirty surgeries, batteries of tests, X-rays, spinal taps, blood transfusions, physical therapy and strong pain killing drugs, she was an absolute survivor, not a victim.<br><br>It was Frida’s father, Guillermo who gave her his box of paints and brushes as she was recovering from the bus accident that had shattered her spine. The devastation she suffered is shown in excruciating detail in her 1944 painting, The Broken Column. Yet the first canvas she painted upon was the most convenient one — the plaster cast bodice encasing her body. As she related, she had dreamed of becoming a doctor, yet “to combat the boredom and pain (and) without giving it any particular thought, I started painting.” Later, her mother asked a carpenter to fashion an easel “if that’s what you can call the special apparatus which could be fixed to my bed because the plaster cast didn’t allow me to sit up.” (Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahol: 1907-1954: Pain and Passion, Taschen, 1999, pg. 18)<br><br>On this particular corset, Kahlo painted a blood-red Hammer and Sickle, the symbolic configuration representing proletarian solidarity — a union between the peasantry and working-class expressing her lifelong political sympathies and below, a developing fetus entering perhaps its third trimester, a reminder of the still deeper insult of the accident, the one that added a layer of suffering and regret to Frida’s personal tragedy — her inability to bear children. Frida’s corsets hardened around her resolve as much as her body, but they also speak of her almost unbearable longing. They are ruminations on the power of creativity to heal as well as demonstrations of Frida Kahlo’s unbounded capacity for confronting the very bodily enclosures that imprisoned her, transforming them, taking them over as much as she could, and turning them into something beautiful and expressive. When Frida Kahlo died in 1954, a grief-stricken Diego Rivera had her belongings locked away for fifteen years, and her personal effects remained sealed, undisturbed, and undocumented until 2004 when the small room in the home her father built in Coyoacán, Mexico was opened to the world. Among the many belongings revealed at Casa Azul were her clothes, jewelry, drawings, letters, documents, and more than 6,500 photographs (among them works by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Man Ray, and Nickolas Muray) as well as the most personal and ironically moving item: the orthopedic plaster corsets she turned into an extension of herself. These harsh clinical objects assaulted her free-spirited nature, yet they remain today as the most palpable reminders that as she suffered through unbearable pain — over thirty surgeries, batteries of tests, X-rays, spinal taps, blood transfusions, physical therapy and strong pain killing drugs, she was an absolute survivor, not a victim.<br><br>It was Frida’s father, Guillermo who gave her his box of paints and brushes as she was recovering from the bus accident that had shattered her spine. The devastation she suffered is shown in excruciating detail in her 1944 painting, The Broken Column. Yet the first canvas she painted upon was the most convenient one — the plaster cast bodice encasing her body. As she related, she had dreamed of becoming a doctor, yet “to combat the boredom and pain (and) without giving it any particular thought, I started painting.” Later, her mother asked a carpenter to fashion an easel “if that’s what you can call the special apparatus which could be fixed to my bed because the plaster cast didn’t allow me to sit up.” (Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahol: 1907-1954: Pain and Passion, Taschen, 1999, pg. 18)<br><br>On this particular corset, Kahlo painted a blood-red Hammer and Sickle, the symbolic configuration representing proletarian solidarity — a union between the peasantry and working-class expressing her lifelong political sympathies and below, a developing fetus entering perhaps its third trimester, a reminder of the still deeper insult of the accident, the one that added a layer of suffering and regret to Frida’s personal tragedy — her inability to bear children. Frida’s corsets hardened around her resolve as much as her body, but they also speak of her almost unbearable longing. They are ruminations on the power of creativity to heal as well as demonstrations of Frida Kahlo’s unbounded capacity for confronting the very bodily enclosures that imprisoned her, transforming them, taking them over as much as she could, and turning them into something beautiful and expressive. When Frida Kahlo died in 1954, a grief-stricken Diego Rivera had her belongings locked away for fifteen years, and her personal effects remained sealed, undisturbed, and undocumented until 2004 when the small room in the home her father built in Coyoacán, Mexico was opened to the world. Among the many belongings revealed at Casa Azul were her clothes, jewelry, drawings, letters, documents, and more than 6,500 photographs (among them works by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Man Ray, and Nickolas Muray) as well as the most personal and ironically moving item: the orthopedic plaster corsets she turned into an extension of herself. These harsh clinical objects assaulted her free-spirited nature, yet they remain today as the most palpable reminders that as she suffered through unbearable pain — over thirty surgeries, batteries of tests, X-rays, spinal taps, blood transfusions, physical therapy and strong pain killing drugs, she was an absolute survivor, not a victim.<br><br>It was Frida’s father, Guillermo who gave her his box of paints and brushes as she was recovering from the bus accident that had shattered her spine. The devastation she suffered is shown in excruciating detail in her 1944 painting, The Broken Column. Yet the first canvas she painted upon was the most convenient one — the plaster cast bodice encasing her body. As she related, she had dreamed of becoming a doctor, yet “to combat the boredom and pain (and) without giving it any particular thought, I started painting.” Later, her mother asked a carpenter to fashion an easel “if that’s what you can call the special apparatus which could be fixed to my bed because the plaster cast didn’t allow me to sit up.” (Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahol: 1907-1954: Pain and Passion, Taschen, 1999, pg. 18)<br><br>On this particular corset, Kahlo painted a blood-red Hammer and Sickle, the symbolic configuration representing proletarian solidarity — a union between the peasantry and working-class expressing her lifelong political sympathies and below, a developing fetus entering perhaps its third trimester, a reminder of the still deeper insult of the accident, the one that added a layer of suffering and regret to Frida’s personal tragedy — her inability to bear children. Frida’s corsets hardened around her resolve as much as her body, but they also speak of her almost unbearable longing. They are ruminations on the power of creativity to heal as well as demonstrations of Frida Kahlo’s unbounded capacity for confronting the very bodily enclosures that imprisoned her, transforming them, taking them over as much as she could, and turning them into something beautiful and expressive. When Frida Kahlo died in 1954, a grief-stricken Diego Rivera had her belongings locked away for fifteen years, and her personal effects remained sealed, undisturbed, and undocumented until 2004 when the small room in the home her father built in Coyoacán, Mexico was opened to the world. Among the many belongings revealed at Casa Azul were her clothes, jewelry, drawings, letters, documents, and more than 6,500 photographs (among them works by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Man Ray, and Nickolas Muray) as well as the most personal and ironically moving item: the orthopedic plaster corsets she turned into an extension of herself. These harsh clinical objects assaulted her free-spirited nature, yet they remain today as the most palpable reminders that as she suffered through unbearable pain — over thirty surgeries, batteries of tests, X-rays, spinal taps, blood transfusions, physical therapy and strong pain killing drugs, she was an absolute survivor, not a victim.<br><br>It was Frida’s father, Guillermo who gave her his box of paints and brushes as she was recovering from the bus accident that had shattered her spine. The devastation she suffered is shown in excruciating detail in her 1944 painting, The Broken Column. Yet the first canvas she painted upon was the most convenient one — the plaster cast bodice encasing her body. As she related, she had dreamed of becoming a doctor, yet “to combat the boredom and pain (and) without giving it any particular thought, I started painting.” Later, her mother asked a carpenter to fashion an easel “if that’s what you can call the special apparatus which could be fixed to my bed because the plaster cast didn’t allow me to sit up.” (Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahol: 1907-1954: Pain and Passion, Taschen, 1999, pg. 18)<br><br>On this particular corset, Kahlo painted a blood-red Hammer and Sickle, the symbolic configuration representing proletarian solidarity — a union between the peasantry and working-class expressing her lifelong political sympathies and below, a developing fetus entering perhaps its third trimester, a reminder of the still deeper insult of the accident, the one that added a layer of suffering and regret to Frida’s personal tragedy — her inability to bear children. Frida’s corsets hardened around her resolve as much as her body, but they also speak of her almost unbearable longing. They are ruminations on the power of creativity to heal as well as demonstrations of Frida Kahlo’s unbounded capacity for confronting the very bodily enclosures that imprisoned her, transforming them, taking them over as much as she could, and turning them into something beautiful and expressive.
El martillo y la hoz (y el bebé no nacido)c. 195016 1/4 x 13 x 6 in.(41,28 x 33,02 x 15,24 cm) yeso seco y técnica mixta
Procedencia
Adquirido al artista
Francisco González de la Fuente, La Granja, por descendencia
Jesús González Vaquero
Por legado a una colección privada, Suiza
Fondo Mundial Artemundi
Colección privada, Bruselas
Exposición
Galerías "La Granja" antigua sede del Convento de Santa Clara, propiedad de "Don Paco" (Francisco González de la Fuente)
Ciudad de México, México, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Frida Kahlo, 1907-2007. Homenaje Nacional, 13 de junio - 19 de agosto de 2007
Ciudad de México, México, Banco Nacional de Méxi
...Más....co y Fomento Cultural Banamex, Palacio de Iturbide, La Mirada de un Anticuario, 2007
Berlín, Alemania, Martin Gropius-Bau, Frida Kahlo Retrospektive, 30 de abril - 9 de agosto de 2010; esta exposición viajó posteriormente a Viena, Kunstforum Wien, 1 de septiembre - 5 de diciembre de 2010
Ontario, Canadá, Art Gallery of Ontario, Frida & Diego: Pasión, política y pintura, 20 de octubre de 2012 - 20 de enero de 2013; esta exposición viajó posteriormente a Atlanta, High Museum of Art, 14 de febrero - 12 de mayo de 2013
Roma, Italia, Quirinale, Palaexpo, Frida Kahlo, 20 de marzo - 31 de agosto de 2014
Génova, Italia, Palacio Ducal, Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera, 20 de septiembre de 2014 - 8 de febrero de 2015
Nueva York, Estados Unidos, Throckmorton Fine Art, Mirror Mirror...Portraits of Frida Kahlo, 21 de mayo - 12 de septiembre de 2015
Milán, Italia, Museo de las Culturas (MUDEC), Frida Kahlo. Más allá del mito, del 1 de febrero al 3 de junio de 2018 (préstamo tramitado y cancelado por falta de presupuesto del museo)
Londres, Reino Unido, Victoria & Albert Museum, Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up, del 16 de junio al 18 de noviembre de 2018
Nueva York, Estados Unidos, Brooklyn Museum, Frida Kahlo: Las apariencias engañan, 8 de febrero de 2019 - 12 de mayo de 2019
San Francisco, Estados Unidos, De Young Museum, Frida Kahlo: Las apariencias engañan, 25 de septiembre de 2020 - 2 de mayo de 2021
Literatura
Flores, Caballero R. El Ropero de Frida. México: Zweig Editoras, 2007. p. 48. Imprimir Fuentes, Carlos. Homenaje Nacional 1907-2007. R.M. Editorial, 2008. Imprimir
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Banamex, 2007, p. 18. Imprimir
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Neue Kritik, 1988, nº 271. p. 229. Imprimir
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Imprimir
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ilustración)
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2012. p. 77. Imprimir
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Museo, 2020. Imprimir
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Zamora, Martha. Frida, El Pincel de la Angustia. México: Marta Zamora, 1987 y 2007, p. 109. Imprimir
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Kahlo, F., En Lozano, L.-M., & Taschen, B. (2021). Frida Kahlo: Las pinturas completas
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"Pensaban que era un surrealista, pero no lo era. Nunca pinté sueños. Pinté mi propia realidad". - Frida Kahlo

Historia

Kahlo luciendo el corsé en Coyoacán, México c.1951.

Kahlo luciendo el corsé en Coyoacán, México c.1951.

Kahlo pintando un corsé similar desde su cama.

Kahlo pintando un corsé similar desde su cama.

Diego besa a Frida en el Hospital Inglés ABC, Ciudad de México, 1950.

Diego besa a Frida en el Hospital Inglés ABC, Ciudad de México, 1950.

Cuando Frida Kahlo murió en 1954, un desconsolado Diego Rivera guardó sus pertenencias bajo llave durante quince años, y sus efectos personales permanecieron sellados, sin ser molestados ni documentados, hasta que en 2004 se abrió al mundo la pequeña habitación de la casa que su padre construyó en Coyoacán, México. Entre las muchas pertenencias reveladas en la Casa Azul se encontraban sus ropas, joyas, dibujos, cartas, documentos y más de 6.500 fotografías (entre ellas obras de Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Man Ray y Nickolas Muray), así como el objeto más personal e irónicamente conmovedor: los corsés ortopédicos de yeso que convirtió en una extensión de sí misma. Estos duros objetos clínicos agredían su naturaleza de espíritu libre, pero siguen siendo hoy los recordatorios más palpables de que, mientras sufría un dolor insoportable -más de treinta cirugías, baterías de pruebas, radiografías, punciones lumbares, transfusiones de sangre, fisioterapia y fuertes fármacos analgésicos-, era una superviviente absoluta, no una víctima.

Fue el padre de Frida, Guillermo, quien le dio su caja de pinturas y pinceles mientras se recuperaba del accidente de autobús que le había destrozado la columna vertebral. La devastación que sufrió se muestra con un detalle insoportable en su cuadro de 1944, La columna rota. Sin embargo, el primer lienzo sobre el que pintó fue el más conveniente: el corpiño de yeso que cubría su cuerpo. Según relató, había soñado con ser médico, pero "para combatir el aburrimiento y el dolor (y) sin pensarlo mucho, empecé a pintar". Más tarde, su madre pidió a un carpintero que fabricara un caballete "si es que se puede llamar así al aparato especial que se podía fijar a mi cama porque la escayola no me permitía sentarme". (Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahol: 1907-1954: Dolor y pasión, Taschen, 1999, pág. 18)

En este corsé en particular, Kahlo pintó una hoz y un martillo de color rojo sangre, la configuración simbólica que representa la solidaridad proletaria -una unión entre el campesinado y la clase obrera que expresa sus simpatías políticas de toda la vida- y, debajo, un feto en desarrollo entrando quizás en su tercer trimestre, un recordatorio del insulto aún más profundo del accidente, el que añadió una capa de sufrimiento y pesar a la tragedia personal de Frida: su incapacidad para tener hijos. Los corsés de Frida se endurecieron en torno a su determinación tanto como a su cuerpo, pero también hablan de su anhelo casi insoportable. Son reflexiones sobre el poder de la creatividad para curar, así como demostraciones de la ilimitada capacidad de Frida Kahlo para enfrentarse a los propios recintos corporales que la aprisionaban, transformarlos, apropiarse de ellos tanto como pudiera y convertirlos en algo bello y expresivo.

"Nada vale más que la risa. Es fuerza reír y abandonarse, ser ligero. La tragedia es lo más ridículo". - Frida Kahlo

EL CORSÉ DE FRIDA KAHLO EN LAS EXPOSICIONES DE LOS MUSEOS

  • Museo Victoria y Alberto, Londres

    El corsé se expone en el Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres como parte de "Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up", del 16 de junio al 18 de noviembre de 2018.
  • Museo Victoria y Alberto, Londres

    El corsé se expone en el Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres como parte de "Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up", del 16 de junio al 18 de noviembre de 2018.
  • Museo De Young, San Francisco

    El corsé se exhibe en el Museo deYoung, San Francisco, como parte de la exposición "Frida Kahlo: Las apariencias engañan" del 25 de septiembre de 2020 al 2 de mayo de 2021.
  • Museo De Young, San Francisco

    El corsé se exhibe en el Museo deYoung, San Francisco, como parte de la exposición "Frida Kahlo: Las apariencias engañan" del 25 de septiembre de 2020 al 2 de mayo de 2021.

Cuando se abrió la habitación de Frida Kahlo en la Casa Azul en 2004, sus objetos personales cautivaron al mundo con una visión íntima de la vida de una de las artistas más célebres e influyentes de México. Desde 2007, "La hoz y el martillo (y el bebé no nacido)" de Kahlo ha viajado por todo el mundo en una serie de prestigiosas exposiciones en México, Europa y EE.UU. Se mostró por primera vez a un amplio público en el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes de Ciudad de México en Frida Kahlo, 1907-2007. Homenaje Nacional (2007), y a lo largo de la década siguiente se presentó en importantes exposiciones en Berlín, Ontario, Roma, Génova, Nueva York, Milán y Londres. Más recientemente, apareció con otros dos corsés de yeso en Frida Kahlo: Las apariencias engañan (25 de septiembre de 2020 - 2 de mayo de 2021), que viajó del Museo de Brooklyn al Museo De Young de San Francisco.

Otros corsés de Frida

Corsé Kahlo Additonal-1
Corsé Kahlo Additonal-2
Corsé Kahlo Additonal-3
Corsé Kahlo Additonal-4

Los mejores resultados en la subasta

Óleo sobre masonita, 11 5/8 x 8 3/4 pulg. Vendido en Sotheby's Nueva York: 16 de noviembre de 2021.

"Diego y yo" (1949) se vendió por 34.883.000 dólares.

Óleo sobre masonita, 11 5/8 x 8 3/4 pulg. Vendido en Sotheby's Nueva York: 16 de noviembre de 2021.
Óleo sobre metal, 9 ¾ x 12 pulg. Vendido en Christie's Nueva York: 12 de mayo de 2016.

"Dos Desnudos En El Bosque (La Tierra Misma)" (1939) se vendió por 8.005.000 dólares.

Óleo sobre metal, 9 ¾ x 12 pulg. Vendido en Christie's Nueva York: 12 de mayo de 2016.
Óleo sobre lienzo 46 ½ x 32 in. Vendido en Christie's Nueva York: 21 de noviembre de 2019.

"Retrato de una dama de blanco" (alrededor de 1929) se vendió por 5.836.500 dólares.

Óleo sobre lienzo 46 ½ x 32 in. Vendido en Christie's Nueva York: 21 de noviembre de 2019.
Óleo sobre metal, 11 ¾ X 19 ¾ pulg. Vendido en Sotheby's Nueva York: 24 de mayo de 2006.

"Raíces" (1943) se vendió por 5.616.000 dólares.

Óleo sobre metal, 11 ¾ X 19 ¾ pulg. Vendido en Sotheby's Nueva York: 24 de mayo de 2006.
Óleo sobre masonita, 30 ½ x 24 pulg. Vendido en Sotheby's Nueva York: 31 de mayo de 2000.

"Autorretrato" (1929) se vendió por 5.065.750 dólares.

Óleo sobre masonita, 30 ½ x 24 pulg. Vendido en Sotheby's Nueva York: 31 de mayo de 2000.

Pinturas en colecciones de museos

Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad de México

"Las dos Fridas" (1939), óleo sobre lienzo, 68 x 68 pulg.

Museo de Arte Moderno, Nueva York

"Autorretrato con el pelo cortado" (1940), óleo sobre lienzo, 15 ¾ x 11 pulg.

Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino México, Ciudad de México

"Henry Ford Hospital" (1932), óleo sobre panel metálico, 12 x 13 ¾ pulg.

Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino México, Ciudad de México

"La columna rota" (1944), óleo sobre masonita, 15 ¾ x 12 pulg.

Museo de Bellas Artes de Houston, Texas

"Moisés" (1945), óleo sobre masonita, 24 x 29 ¾ pulg.

Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino México, Ciudad de México

"Sin esperanza" (1945), óleo sobre lienzo en masonita, 14 ¼ x 11 pulg.
"Pinto mi propia realidad. Lo único que sé es que pinto porque lo necesito, y pinto lo que se me pasa por la cabeza sin ninguna otra consideración". - Frida Kahlo

Recursos adicionales

Visita a la exposición del Museo De Young

Vea el corsé que aparece en el minuto 13:50 y que comentan los comisarios de la exposición en el vídeo del Museo deYoung sobre "Frida Kahlo: Las apariencias engañan".

Revista Time

Esta imagen de Kahlo con el corsé está catalogada por la revista Time como uno de los seis artefactos cruciales que ayudan a ilustrar la historia personal de Kahlo.

Visita a la exposición del Museo de Brooklyn

Vea este vídeo de las reacciones de los asistentes al museo ante "Frida Kahlo: Las apariencias engañan" en el Museo de Brooklyn.

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