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Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair
by Frida Kahlo, 1940
Artwork Details
Details
- Year
- 1940
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 40 cm × 27.9 cm (15.7 × 11 in)
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Mexican painter Frida Kahlo painted this Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair in 1940, shortly after divorcing Diego Rivera. She sits wearing a man's suit, her long black hair cut short and scattered around her. Musical notation and lyrics float above: "Look, if I loved you it was for your hair. Now that you're bald, I don't love you anymore."
The painting rejects feminine beauty standards associated with Rivera's desires. Kahlo declared her independence by destroying what he had loved about her. The oversized suit swallows her small frame. Yet her gaze remains direct and unflinching. They remarried later that year. It hangs in MoMA.
