Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky — Frida Kahlo

DETAILS

Artist: Frida Kahlo
Date: 1937
Location: National Museum of Women in the Arts

ART MOVEMENTS

Magic Realism Mexican muralism Surrealism

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THE ARTIST

Frida Kahlo

1907–1954 · Mexico

Mexican painter who turned her physical pain into iconic self-portraits blending folk art with surrealist fantasy.

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