by Frida Kahlo · SCHIRMER MOSEL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783888147005
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«Frida Kahlo Masterpieces» is the art book of Frida Kahlo, published by Schirmer/Mosel in paperback (104 pages, in English).
The volume brings together 42 masterpieces by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, reproduced in colour plates. Each plate includes a brief explanatory commentary and is complemented by a chronology of the artist's life.
The edition published in 1996 by Schirmer/Mosel is number 15 in the Schirmer's Visual Library series.
For readers interested in a visual introduction to Frida Kahlo's painting.
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. Her 1940 self-portrait titled The Dream holds the record for the most expensive work by a female artist ever auctioned, at $54.7 million.
