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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2022 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 31 | $****** - ****** | Self-Portrait (Very Ugly) |
paintings
27.3 x 22.2 cm (10.75 x 8.75 in)
fresco on Celotex board
signed 'FRIEDA' (lower left) and inscribed 'SIRV, OH! BOY, VERY U' (right)
Lucienne Bloch, New York (gift directly from the artist, 1933).
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 27-29 November 1984, lot 138.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Mexico City, Museo Nacional, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Los surrealistas en México , July-September 1986, no. 119.
New York, Baruch College Gallery; Stony Brook, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Women Artists of the Surrealist Movement , October 1986-January 1987.
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle; Vienna, Messepalast; Dallas Museum of Art, Images of Mexico , December 1987-October 1988, no. 103 (illustrated in color, p. 230).
Dallas, Meadows Museum of Art, Frida Kahlo , February-April 1989, no. 14 (illustrated in color, p. 48).
New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, The Latin Century: Beyond the Border , August-November 2002, pp. 59 and 73 (illustrated in color, on the cover and p. 1).
Dallas Museum of Art, on extended loan, 1989-2005.
London, Tate Modern, Frida Kahlo , June-October 2005, no. 122 (illustrated in color, p. 202).
Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Frida Kahlo: 1907-2007 , June-August 2007, no. 20, pp. 140-143, 388 (illustrated in color, p. 141).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Frida Kahlo , October 2006-September 2008, pl. 16, p. 289 (illustrated in color, p. 148).
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Guests of Honor: Self-Portraits by Frida Kahlo , February-March 2009.
Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau; Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Frida Kahlo: Retrospective , April-December 2010, no. 19, pp. 106 and 244 (illustrated in color, p. 107).
Biarritz, Le Bellevue, L'art Mexicain 1920-1960: Éloge du corps , June-October 2013 (illustrated in color, p. 156).
Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, Frida Kahlo , March-August 2014 (illustrated in color, p. 125).
Detroit Institute of Arts, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit , March-July 2015, cat. 48 (illustrated in color, p. 100).
Dallas Museum of Art, on extended loan, 2016-2020.
San Francisco, de Young Museum, Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving , September 2020-May 2021, no. 6 (illustrated in color, p. 47).
Waltham, Rose Museum of Art, Brandeis University, Frida Kahlo: POSE and Frida Kahlo at the Rose Art Museum , June 2021-October 2022.
H. Herrera, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo , New York, Harper and Row, 1983, p. 170.
H. Prignitz-Poda, et al., Frida Kahlo: Das Gesamtwerk , Frankfurt, Verlag Neue Kritik, 1988, no. 146, p. 265 (present lot illustrated in color, and as originally painted, p. 181).
H. Herrera, Frida Kahlo: The Paintings , New York, Harper Collins Publishers, 1991, no. 102, p. 241 (illustrated, p. 102).
C. Monsivais, et al., Frida Kahlo: Una vida, una obra , Mexico City, Editorial ERA, 1992, no. 22, p.161 (illustrated in color).
A. Kettenman, Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954: Leid und Leidenschaft , Cologne, Taschen, 1992, no. 26, p. 94 (illustrated in color, p. 26).
A. Kettenman, Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954: Pain And Passion , Cologne, Taschen, 1993, no. 26, p. 94 (illustrated in color, p. 26).
E. Billeter, The Blue House: The World of Frida Kahlo , Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, 1993, p. 250.
A. Kettenman, Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954: Pain And Passion , New York, Smith Mark, 1995 (illustrated in color, p. 41).
H. Herrera, Frida Kahlo: die Gemälde , München, Schirmer/Mosel, 1995 (illustrated, p. 158).
T. Hardin, Frida Kahlo: A Modern Master , New York, Todtri Prod LTD, 1997 (illustrated in color, p. 17).
S. Grimberg, Frida Kahlo , New York, Barnes and Noble, 1997 (illustrated in color, p. 60).
S. Grimberg, Frida Kahlo: Song of Herself , New York-London, Merrell, 2008 (illustrated in color, p. 12).
S. Grimberg, Frida Kahlo Confidences , Paris, Chêne, 2008 (illustrated in color, p. 12).
G. Souter, Diego Rivera: His Art and His Passions , New York, Parkstone International, 2009 (illustrated in color, p. 113).
L. M. Lozano, ed., Frida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings , Cologne, Taschen, 2021, no. 41, pp. 506-508 and 583 (illustrated in color, p. 506).
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
Self-Portrait (Very Ugly)
signed 'FRIEDA' (lower left) and inscribed 'SIRV, OH! BOY, VERY U' (right)
fresco on Celotex board
10 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (27.3 x 22.2 cm.)
Executed in 1933
