Sunday, March 29, 2009
3:55 PM
1938, Oil on masonite, 16" x 12"Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York
October 1938, Frida staged her first one-woman exhibition at the Levy Gallery in New York. In the crowd of spectators A. Conger Goodyear, president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, spotted a painting he just had to have – Fulang-Chang and I. Unfortunately, the work had already been promised to someone else. Not to be dissuaded from owning a work by Frida, he commissioned her to paint a similar self-portrait. A week later she unveiled Self-portrait With Monkey.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/fridakahlo/worksofart/monkey.html
Done by:L.Lishi(2A)(9).
Self-Portrait with Monkey.
