Self-Portrait with Monkey

Self-Portrait with Monkey
Spanish: Autorretrato con mono
Artist Frida Kahlo
Year 1938
Type Oil on masonite
Dimensions 40.6 cm × 30.5 cm (16.0 in × 12.0 in)
Location Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Self-Portrait with Monkey (Autorretrato con mono in Spanish) is an oil on masonite painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, commissioned in 1938 by A. Conger Goodyear, then president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is one of the many self-portraits painted by Kahlo for friends and patrons during her career.[1]

The original is housed at the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.[2]

References

  1. "The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo . Art work . Self-Portrait with Monkey | PBS". PBS. Retrieved 24 May 2013. line feed character in |title= at position 45 (help)
  2. "Self-Portrait with Monkey". Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
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