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 City. 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

↑ "Self-Portrait with Monkey". The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo. PBS. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
↑ "Self-Portrait with Monkey". Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Retrieved 2 October 2013.

Frida Kahlo

List of paintings

Selected paintings	Self-Portrait with Monkey (1938) The Suicide of Dorothy Hale (1938) What the Water Gave Me (1938) The Two Fridas (1939) Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940) The Wounded Table (1940) The Broken Column (1944) The Wounded Deer (1946) The Love Embrace (1949)

Works about Kahlo	Frida Still Life Diego et Frida Frida (film) Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo Frida (opera)

Related articles	Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museum

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