Sunday, March 29, 2009
12:24 PM
What is it about?
Completed after Kahlo remarried her lifelong love, Diego Rivera, the painting,"Roots", symbolizes their unity after years of pain and suffering. It is among the few full-length self-portraits by Kahlo in existence, measures 30.5 by 49.9 cm (12 by 19 1/2 ins). Roots had been in a North American Collection for over twenty years and was exhibited last year in the 2005 Frida Kahlo retrospective at the Tate Modern. Of the limited number of works produced during Kahlo’s lifetime, her self-portraits are her most famous and well-known. Executed in 1943, following Kahlo’s reunion with Rivera, Roots depicts Kahlo in a rocky area, the Pedregal in the south of Mexico City, where Rivera designed the Anahuacalli Museum to house his pre-Columbian art collection.
