Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), The Flower Basket

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
The Flower Basket
signed and dated 'Frida Kahlo 1941' (lower center right)
oil on copper
25 ¼ in. (64.1 cm.) copper plate, 31 3/8 in. (80 cm.) framed, diameter
Painted in 1941.

Pre-Lot Text
THE JAMES AND MARILYNN ALSDORF COLLECTION
Post Lot Text
1 See Lot 37 in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Mexican Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Prints: May 9, 1980 (New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1980), n.p.
2 Teresa Eckmann, “¿Centro o periferia? Frida Kahlo, neomexicanismo y género,” in ¿Neomexicanismos? Ficciones identitarias en el México de los ochentas (Mexico City: Museo de Arte Moderno, 2011), p. 129. Author’s translation.
3 See the exhibition overview at https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2014/Unbound-Contemporary-Art-After-Frida-Kahlo. Accessed September 27, 2019.
4 Salomon Grimberg arrives at the estimate of forty still lifes on page 12 of his book, Frida Kahlo: The Still Lifes based on the catalogue raisonné, Frida Kahlo: Das Gesamtwerk, ed. Helga Prignitz-Poda, Salomon Grimberg, and Andrea Kettermann (Frankfurt am Main: Neue Kritik, 1988). Nancy Deffenbach opens her chapter “Picantes pero sabrosas: Kahlo’s Still-Life Paintings and Related Images,” in her book María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo: Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015) stating “Kahlo created over twenty-five still life paintings…,” page 135.
5 Deffenbach,“Picantes pero sabrosas,” p. 135.
6 See Luis-Martín Lozano essay on The Flower Basket in this same catalogue.
7 Hayden Herrera, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (New York: Harper and Row, 1983), p. 302.
8 Grimberg, Frida Kahlo, pp. 78-80 and Deffenbach, “Picantes pero sabrosas,” p. 141.
9 Grimberg, Frida Kahlo, p. 84.
10 See document at Heritage Auctioneers, https://historical.ha.com/itm/autographs/artists/frida-kahlo-documents-two-signed-twice-and-engrossed-in-her-hand-declaring-that-actress-paulette-goddard-had-purchased-kah-total-/a/6054-34309.s. Accessed September 20, 2019.
11 Raquel Tibol, Frida by Frida (Mexico City: Editorial RM, 2006), p. 262.
12 Deffenbach,“Picantes pero sabrosas,” p. 138.
13 ¿Neomexicanismos? Ficciones identitarias en el México de los ochentas (Mexico City: Museo de Arte Moderno, 2011) and Pasión por Frida (Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1992).
14 See Teresa Eckmann, “¿Centro o periferia? Frida Kahlo,” p. 138.