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Property from a Private Collection, North America

Frida Kahlo

The Miscarriage (Frida and the Miscarriage)

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, North America

Frida Kahlo

1907 - 1954


The Miscarriage (Frida and the Miscarriage) 

signed Frida and dedicated Para la Maluchita chula (lower right); numbered 7a prueba (lower left)

lithograph on paper with colored pencil and pen and ink inscriptions

12 ⅜ by 9 ⅜ in.

31.4 by 23.8 cm.

Executed in 1932, this example is number 7 from an edition of 19.


This lot is accompanied by an archive of eight letters, one telegram and one photograph from Frida Kahlo to Malu Cabrera de Block, dated 1932-33.

Private Collection, Mexico (acquired directly from the artist)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Raquel Tibol, Frida Kahlo: Cronica, Testimonios Y Aproximaciones, vol. 1, Mexico 1977, p. 104, illustrated (2nd proof illustrated)

Hayden Herrera, Frida Kahlo: the Paintings, New York 1983, n. 26, p. 140, illustrated (2nd proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Madrid, Salas Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Frida Kahlo: [1907-1954], 1985, n. 10, p. 45, illustrated (2nd proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Plaza de la Raza, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954): The Collection of Dolores Olmedo Patiño, 1987, n. 25, p. 55, illustrated (2nd proof illustrated)

Helga Prignitz-Poda, Salomón Grimberg and Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahlo: Das Gesamtwek, (The Complete Works), vol. 1, Frankfurt 1988, n. 261c , p. 225, illustrated in color (12th proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, Frida Kahlo, 1989, n. 60, illustrated (2nd proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Dallas, Southern Methodist University, The Meadows Museum, Frida Kahlo, 1989, p. 7, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Hayden Herrera, Frida Kahlo: The Paintings, vol. 1, New York 1991, p. 77, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954: Pain and Passion, vol. 1, Cologne 1993, p. 36, illustrated (2nd proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The World of Frida Kahlo, 1993, n. 28, p. 105, illustrated in color (2nd proof illustrated)

Robin Richmond, Painters & Places: Frida Kahlo in Mexico, San Francisco 1994, p.86, illustrated (2nd proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Finland, The Helsinki City Art Museum, Frida Kahlo, 1997, p. 73, illustrated in color (2nd proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo, 1998, n. 13, p. 198, illustrated in color (2nd proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Diego Rivera - Frida Kahlo: Regards Croisés, 1998, p. 175, illustrated in color (2nd proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 2000, pp. 29 and 46, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)

Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall, Carr, O’Keefe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own, New Haven 2000, p. 13, illustrated (2nd proof illustrated)

Luis–Martín Lozano, ed., Frida Kahlo, Mexico/Milan 2000, page 74, Illustrated in color (2nd proof illustrated)

Carlos Monsivais, Eli Bartra, Luis-Martin Lozano, et al., Frida Kahlo, Un Homenaje, vol. 1, Mexico City 2004, p. 36, illustrated in color (2nd proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Milan, Museo della Permanente, Frida Kahlo., 2004, p. 276, illustrated (2nd proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Ponce, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Frida Kahlo and her Worlds, 2005, n. 46, p. 59, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Modern, Frida Kahlo, 2005, n. 28, p. 36, illustrated in color (2nd proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Hamburg, The Bucerius Kunst Forum, Frida Kahlo, 2006, n. 10, pp. 79-80, illustrated in color (2nd proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Homenaje: Frida Kahlo Homenaje Nacional 1907-2007, 2007, n. 153, p. 202, illustrated in color (12th proof illustrated)

Martha Zamora, Frida: El pincel de la angustia, vol 2. Mexico 2007, p. 282, illustrated (2nd proof illustrated)

Rosa Casanova, Dina Comisarenco Mirkin, Teresa Del Conde, et al., Frida’s Frida, vol. 1, Mexico City 2007, p. 155, illustrated in color (2nd proof illustrated)

Carlos Fuentes, Frida Kahlo: Homenaje Nacional(1907-2007), vol. 1, Mexico City, 2007, n. 122-124, pp. 384-385, illustrated in color (2nd, 11th and 13th proof illustrated)

Salomon Grimberg, Frida Kahlo: The Still Lifes, London 2008, p. 36, illustrated in color (9th proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, Frida Kahlo curated by Helga Prignitz-Poda, 2014, n. 2, pp. 91 and 122, illustrated in color (13th proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Mexican Modern Art, 2015, n. 16, p. 43, illustrated in color (13th proof illustrated)

Exh. Cat., São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Frida Kahlo – Connections Between Surrealist Women in Mexico, 2016, p. 116, illustrated (13th proof illustrated)

Luis–Martín Lozano, ed., Frida Kahlo. The Complete Paintings, Cologne 2021, page 94, Illustrated in color (2nd proof illustrated)