Frida Kahlo print in new frame. 8x10

Gorgeous print of Frida self portrait in new 8x10 frame. About the original: Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954). Self-Portrait as a Tehuana, 1943. Oil on hardboard, 30 x 24 in. (76 x 61 cm). A decade after painting Frida and Diego Rivera, Kahlo will revisit the subject of their tumultuous relationship in one of her most haunting self-portraits – a genre of which she would become as potent a pioneer as Rembrandt and Van Gogh before her. Self-Portrait as Tehuana (1943) (often referred to as ‘Diego on My Mind’), was begun in 1940, during the brief interlude between the couple’s two volatile marriages. It shows the artist clad in the lace of traditional Mexican dress, surrounded surreally by a shatter of web-like fibres that appear to crack the work’s invisible pane, as if the windscreen of her spirit has been struck by an existential stone. At the centre of the impact is a miniature bust of Diego, emblazoned on her forehead like an elaborate third eye – a recurring motif in folk art symbolising inner vision. The migration of Diego from an imposing physical presence beside her in the earlier, more conventional portrait, to an integral component of her very being, is profound. However tempestuous their relationship has become, she has come to see Diego as the very lens through which she perceives reality – the epicentre of her creativity.