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The Frame
Spanish: El marco
Artist	Frida Kahlo
Year	1938
Type	Oil on aluminum, framed in glass
Dimensions	28.5 cm × 20.7 cm (11.2 in × 8.1 in)
Location	Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

The Frame (El marco in Spanish) is a 1938 self-portrait by Frida Kahlo. The painting features Kahlo's self-portrait in oil on a sheet of aluminum framed in glass which she purchased from a market in Oaxaca, Mexico. Although the glass frame is included as part of the painting, the flowers, birds, and other details on the frame were painted prior to being purchased by Kahlo.

The painting is notable as the first work by a 20th-century Mexican artist to be purchased by a major international museum, when it was acquired by the Louvre in 1939. The painting is now shown at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It was the only sale Kahlo made in her Paris exhibition. Upon Kahlo's death in 1954, the New York Times stated that she was "said to have been the first woman artist to sell a picture to the Louvre."

See also

• List of paintings by Frida Kahlo
• The Frida Kahlo Museum (La Casa Azul)

References

1. Self-portrait "The Frame" by Frida Kahlo. fridakahlo.org.
2. "The Frame by Frida Kahlo". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
3. ^ Lozano, Luis-Martín; Kettenmann, Andrea; Vázquez Ramos, Marina; Taschen, Benedikt, eds. (2021). Frida Kahlo: the complete paintings. Köln: Taschen GmbH. ISBN 978-3-8365-7420-4. OCLC 1255833086.
4. The Frame, Frida Kahlo. fridakahlofans.com.
5. Terri Hardin Frida Kahlo: A Modern Master 2005- Page 68 1597640891 "Breton annoyed Kahlo by exhibiting a jumble of various folk objects of varying artistic merit that he had acquired in Mexico — "junk," as she called it. Nevertheless, the objects were no doubt sufficiently exotic to the European sensibility, and Breton's instincts were probably right in presenting them. While the exhibit was not a financial success (due to the imminent onset of World War II), the Louvre chose to purchase one of Kahlo's works, The Frame (c. 1938). The Frame is a lively work ...
6. "Frida Kahlo, Artist, Diego Rivera's Wife". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2024-05-08.

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