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Portrait of Cristina, My Sister by Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

Portrait of Cristina, My Sister, 1928

Oil on panel
81 x 60.3 cm (31.88 x 23.75 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (09 Nov 2023)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Nov 9, 2023
Christie'sNew York20th Century Evening Sale9B
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Portrait of Cristina, My Sister
May 31, 2001
Sotheby'sNew YorkLatin American Art15
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Portrait of Cristina, My Sister
Nov 21, 1988
Sotheby'sNew YorkLatin American Art22
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Portrait of Cristina, My Sister
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

81 x 60.3 cm (31.88 x 23.75 in)

Materials

oil on panel

Signature

signed and dated "FRIEDA KAHLO, 1928" (lower right)

Provenance

Cristina Kahlo Pinedo (gift from the artist).

Isolda Pinedo Kahlo (by descent from the above, circa 1964).

Sale, Christie"s, New York, 26 November 1985, lot 48.

Private collection, New York; sale, Sotheby"s, New York, 21 November 1988, lot 22.

Private collection, New York; sale, Sotheby"s, New York, 31 May 2001, lot 15.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

Exhibited

Mexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Frida Kahlo Exposición Nacional Homenaje , September-November 1977, no. 4.

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; La Jolla, Mandeville Art Gallery; Phoenix Art Museum; Austin, University Art Gallery; Houston, Blaffer Art Gallery and Purchase, Neuberger Museum, Frida Kahlo (1910-1954) , January-March 1978, p. 26 (illustrated).

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Philadelphia Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Frida Kahlo , October 2007-September 2008, p. 132 (illustrated in color).

Literature

L. Salber, Frida Kahlo , Hamburg, 1977, p. 38 (illustrated).

H. Herrera, A Biography of Frida Kahlo , New York, 1983, no. 13 (illustrated).

M. Zamorra, Frida Kahlo: El Pincel de la Angustia , Mexico City, 1987, p. 256 (illustrated in color).

H. Prignitz-Poda, et al., Frida Kahlo das Gesamtwerk , Frankfurt, 1988, p. 91, no. 12 (illustrated in color).

M. Zamorra, Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish , San Francisco, 1990, p. 49 (illustrated in color).

H. Herrera, Frida Kahlo: The Paintings , New York, 1991, p. 44 (illustrated).

H. Herrera, Frida Kahlo, Die Gemälde , Munich, 1991, p. 31 (illustrated).

A. Kettenman, Frida Kahlo , Frankfurt, 1992, p. 15 (illustrated in color).

S. Grimberg, Frida Kahlo , New York, 1997, p. 44 (illustrated in color).

H. Hererra, Frida, A Biography of Frida Kahlo , New York, 2002, p. 133, no. 13 (illustrated).

H. Prignitz-Poda, et al., Frida Kahlo: The Painter and Her Work , Munich, 2003, p. 24 (illustrated).

S. Grimberg, Frida Kahlo: Confidences , Paris, 2008, p. 80 (illustrated in color).

S. Grimberg, Frida Kahlo: Song of Herself , London, 2008, p. 80 (illustrated in color).

G. Souter, Frida Kahlo , New York, 2012, p. 21 (illustrated in color).

A. Kettenman, Frida Kahlo: Pain and Passion , Cologne, 2016, p. 15 (illustrated in color).

H. Prignitz-Poda, Hidden Frida Kahlo: Lost, Destroyed, or Little Known Works , Munich, 2017, p. 37 (illustrated in color).

L. M. Lozano, ed., Frida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings , Cologne, 2021, pp. 52 and 483, no. 19 (illustrated in color, pp. 52 and 483).

Description

FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954)

Portrait of Cristina, My Sister

signed and dated "FRIEDA KAHLO, 1928" (lower right)

oil on panel

31 7/8 x 23 ¾ in. (79.8 x 60.3 cm.)

Painted in 1928