Call it dating Frida Kahlo: How newly discovered photos raise compelling questions about an important Kahlo portrait and what it meant to the man who painted it, her husband.
Without fanfare, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently changed the date assigned to its rare Diego Rivera portrait of Frida Kahlo.
acquired the odd little picture 20 years ago, a bequest of former Southern California art dealers Bernard and Edith Lewin, who specialized in Mexican paintings. But this one was undated. For decades, educated guesswork pegged the portrait’s execution at “around 1939.” Now, the assigned date has been securely pushed back — to 1935. Four years is just a slight alteration, to be sure, but not an insignificant one for reasons I’ll get to.
’s little Kahlo portrait by Rivera stared back. The archive, assembled from carefully annotated company records, includes a black and white image of the painting. The date on the Juley photograph is unambiguous: 1935. ’s website and a gallery wall label said the painting dates to “around 1939.” But that couldn’t be correct. It’s hard to photograph a work of art that hasn’t yet been made. I got in touch with Ilona Katzew, the museum’s top-notch curator and department head of Latin American art, to see what she thought of the material I had stumbled on. Intrigued, she looked into it. Soon enough, a change was made. Now, the painting’s posted information reads “1935.
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