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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2021 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Evening Auction | 12 | $****** - ****** | Diego y yo |
paintings
29.5 x 22.2 cm (11.63 x 8.75 in)
oil on Masonite
signed Frida Kahlo , dated 1949 and inscribed Mexico and Diego y yo (upper right); dedicated and inscribed para Florence y Sam con el cariño de Frida. Mexico, Junio de 1949 (on the reverse)
Sam Williams & Florence Arquin, Chicago (acquired directly from the artist)
Sotheby’s, New York, 2 May 1990, lot 18 (consigned by the above)
Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Texas (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above circa 1995)
Acquired by descent to the present owner
Raquel Tibol, Frida Kahlo: Crónica, testimonios y aproximaciones, Mexico City, 1997, n.p., illustrated
Hayden Herrera, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo , New York, 1983, pl. XXVI,
illustrated in color
Rauda Jamis, Frida Kahlo: Autoportrait d’une femme , Paris, 1985, n.p., illustrated
Araceli Rico Cervantes, Frida Kahlo: Fantasia de un cuerpo herido , Mexico City, 1987, p. 67, illustrated
Martha Zamora, Frida, El Pincel de la angustia , Mexico City, 1987, p. 351, illustrated in color
Helga Pringnitz Poda, Salomon Grimberg & Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahlo, Das Gesamtwerk , Frankfurt, 1988, no. 119, p. 164, illustrated in color
Hayden Herrera, Frida Kahlo: The Paintings , New York, 1991, pp. 172-73, illustrated in color
Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954 , Cologne, 1993, pp.78-79, illustrated in color
Robin Richmond, Frida Kahlo in Mexico , San Francisco, 1994, pp. 8-9 & 135, illustrated in color
Salomon Grimberg, Frida Kahlo , Greenwich, 1997, pp.114-15, illustrated in color
Luis-Martín Lozano, ed., Frida , Colima, 2000, p. 207, illustrated in color
Helga Prignitz-Poda, Frida Kahlo: The Painter and Her Work , New York, 2003, no. 40, pp. 244-45, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Frida Kahlo , 2006, fig. 5, p. 44, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Munich, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Frida Kahlo-Retrospective, 2010, fig. 14, p. 51, illustrated in color
Luis-Martín Lozano, ed. The Complete Paintings of Frida Kahlo , Taschen 2021, pp. 288-289, illustrated in colour
Property from a Private Collection
Frida Kahlo
1907 - 1954
Diego y yo
signed Frida Kahlo , dated 1949 and inscribed Mexico and Diego y yo (upper right); dedicated and inscribed para Florence y Sam con el cariño de Frida. Mexico, Junio de 1949 (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
11⅝ by 8¾ in. 30 by 22.4 cm.
Executed in June 1949.
