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FRIDA KAHLO Self Portrait, Dedicated to Dr Eloesser Skate Deck Modern Design Pop2025
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Frida Kahlo - Self Portrait, Dedicated to Dr Eloesser
Date of creation: 2025
Medium: Digital print on Canadian maple wood
Edition: Open
Size: 80 x 20 cm
Condition: In mint conditions and never displayed
Skate deck made of 7 ply grade A Canadian maple wood.
©2025 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Self-Portrait, Dedicated to Dr. Eloesser (1940) is a visual letter Frida Kahlo wrote with a brush instead of a pen. More than a portrait, it’s a thank-you painted with solemnity, devotion… and, of course, that theatrical flair only Frida could lend to her image. In this work, she stands upright and composed, dressed in a purple huipil adorned with pre-Hispanic motifs—a nod to her Mexican roots and her love of indigenous symbolism.
Her gaze is direct, unwavering, almost hypnotic, as if to ensure her message lands without the need for interpretation. The background is stark, nearly empty, which only magnifies her commanding presence. Behind her, a cloudy sky suggests that while the storm may have passed, the wounds remain—hidden, but not forgotten.
The portrait is dedicated to Dr. Leo Eloesser, her physician and close friend, who supported her through some of her most challenging health crises. But don’t expect sentimental clichés: what Frida offers is gratitude dressed in power. Even in appreciation, she maintains full control of her visual narrative.
With this painting, Kahlo transforms pain into dignity, recovery into art, and the doctor-patient relationship into a scene somewhere between a personal altar and a performance of resilience. As always, the intimate becomes universal, and the everyday, extraordinary.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Frida Kahlo was born in the Blue House of Coyoacán, Mexico, in 1907—although she later claimed to have been born in 1910, aligning her birth with the start of the Mexican Revolution. It wasn’t vanity; it was a statement. Frida didn’t just live through time—she reimagined it with every brushstroke.
As a child, she contracted polio, leaving one of her legs thinner than the other. To compensate, she developed an even larger personality. But it was in 1925, when a streetcar accident shattered her spine, pelvis, and much of her body, that her life split in two—literally and symbolically. Most would have been defeated. Frida turned pain into language.
During her recovery, she began to paint. A mirror placed above her bed allowed her to transform her face into fertile ground for symbolism, memory, and resistance. She didn’t paint what she saw—she painted what she felt, remembered, endured. Her self-portraits were not simply likenesses but visual manifestos: her face framed by monkeys, thorns, flowers, roots, corsets, and, always, that singular unibrow—one bold line of unbroken thought.
In 1929, she married the muralist Diego Rivera, launching one of the most tempestuous love stories in art history. Their relationship was marked by infidelities, separations, and reconciliations—fuel for both drama and creativity. “I had two accidents in my life,” she once quipped, “one was the streetcar, the other was Diego. Diego was the worst.” And still, she loved him. In her own way.
Frida was political, communist, a voracious reader, a collector of traditional dress, a lover of men and women, a bold hostess, and a tireless provocateur. Her unique style—embroidered huipils, long skirts, floral crowns, and Indigenous jewelry—was not just fashion, but a cultural and personal declaration. Aesthetic and ideology intertwined.
Though she exhibited in Paris and New York and earned the admiration of figures like Picasso and Breton, during her lifetime she was often seen as “Diego Rivera’s eccentric wife” more than as an artist in her own right. It wasn’t until decades after her death in 1954 that her legacy truly exploded: feminist, queer, Latin American, unrepentantly original.
Today, Frida Kahlo is far more than an artist—she is a symbol of resistance, radical authenticity, and fierce beauty. Her legacy transcends museums and textbooks to live on in popular culture, street art, tattoos, fashion, and, above all, in the hearts of those who see in her the proof that art doesn’t need permission to be truth.
Frida never sought immortality. And yet, she found it.
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 31.5 in (80 cm)Width: 7.88 in (20 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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- After:Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
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- Gallery Location:Madrid, ES
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