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FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954)

Lot 56
17.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 56 | FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954)
Estimate value
$ 6 000 000 – 8 000 000
FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954)
Window Display on a Detroit Street (Aparador en una calle de Detroit)
signed and dated 'Frida Kahlo 1931.' (lower left); titled 'Aparador en una calle de Detroit.' (lower right)
oil on metal
12 x 15 in. (30.5 x 38.1 cm.)
Painted in 1931-1932.




Provenance

Eduardo Morillo Safa, Mexico City, 1953, acquired directly from the artist
Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City, by 1978
Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York
Private collection, New York
Robert Holmes à Court Collection, Perth
Mr. and Mrs. Abel Holtz, Miami
Private collection, Miami, 2012



Literature

N. Breslow, "Frida Kahlo: A Cry of Joy and Pain," Americas, vol. XXXII, March 1980, p. 39, no. 3.
H. Herrera, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, New York, 1983, pp. 151-152 (illustrated).
M. Zamora, Frida: El pincel de la angustia, Mexico City, 1987, p. 275 (illustrated).
H. Herrera, Frida Kahlo: The Paintings, New York, 1991, p. 94 (illustrated).
S. M. Lowe, Frida Kahlo: Universe Series on Women Artists, Austin, 1991, pp. 105-107, no. 31 (illustrated).
C. Monsiváis and R. Vazquez Bayod, Frida Kahlo: Una vida, una obra, Mexico City, 1992, pp. 66 and 171, no. 16 (illustrated).
E. Báez Macias, El caballo en el arte Mexicano, Mexico City, 1994, p. 154.
S. Grimberg, Frida Kahlo, New York, 1997, p. 58 (illustrated).
L.-M. Lozano, Frida Kahlo, Boston and New York, 2000, pp. 71-73 (illustrated).
G. Souter, Frida Kahlo, Beneath the Mirror, New York, 2005, pp. 50-51 and 204 (illustrated).
S. Grimberg, Frida Kahlo: The Still Lifes, London and New York, 2008, pp. 34-35 (illustrated).
B. Davis, “The Striking Absence in the Detroit Institute of Arts's Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Blockbuster,” Artnet, 16 March 2015, digital (illustrated).
R. Buckson, “The 'Rivera and Kahlo in Detroit' Exhibit,” The Detroit News, 6 July 2015, digital (illustrated).
H. Prignitz-Poda, Hidden Frida Kahlo: Lost, Destroyed or Little Well-Known Works, New York, 2017, p. 171 (illustrated).
O. Bertè, O movimento criativo e pedagógico de Frida Kahlo, Santa Maria, 2018, p. 116.
C. Stahr, Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist, New York, 2020, pp. 116, 181, 184 and 372, no. 10 (illustrated).
L.-M. Lozano, Frida Kahlo, The Complete Paintings, Cologne, 2021, pp. 88-89 and 499-500, no. 36 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Mexico City, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Primicias para un homenaje a Frida Kahlo, April 1953.
Mexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Frida Kahlo: Exposición nacional de homenaje, September-November 1977, n.p., no. 13.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; La Jolla, University of California, Mandeville Art Gallery; Phoenix Art Museum; University of Texas at Austin, University Art Museum; University of Houston, The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery and The State University of New York at Purchase, Neuberger Museum, Frida Kahlo: 1910-1954, January 1978-January 1979, p. 26.
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia and Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, The Art of Frida Kahlo, March-May 1990, pp. 37 and 57, no. 10 (illustrated).
Venice, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, 49° Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Frida Kahlo e i capolavori della pittura messicana, June-September, 2001, pp. 40-41 (illustrated).
Miami Art Museum, Miami Currents: Linking Collection and Community, October 2002-March 2003.
London, Tate Modern, Frida Kahlo, June-October 2005, pp. 162-163 and 224, no. 55 (illustrated).
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Frida Kahlo y sus mundos, November 2005-February 2006, pp. 17 and 152, no. 5 (illustrated).
Mexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Frida Kahlo: Homenaje Nacional 1907-2007, June-August 2007, pp. 124-127, no. 16 (illustrated).
Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau and Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Frida Kahlo: Retrospektive, April-December 2010, pp. 98-99 and 244, no. 14 (illustrated).
Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, Frida Kahlo, March-August 2014, p. 118, no. 33 (illustrated).
Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, Frida Kahlo e Diego Rivera, September 2014-February 2015, pp. 101 and 264, no. 15 (illustrated).
Detroit Institute of Arts, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit, March-July 2015, pp. 59 and 146-148, no. 28 (illustrated).



Further Details

We are grateful to Professor Luis-Martín Lozano for his assistance cataloguing this work.
We are also grateful to Dr. Salomon Grimberg for his assistance cataloguing this work.
Artist:Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Mexico
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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