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Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky

by Frida Kahlo · 1937

Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky by Frida Kahlo

Artist

Frida Kahlo was a Mexico painter associated with the Surrealism movement.

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Artwork

Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky, also known as Between the Curtains, is a 1937 painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, given to Leon Trotsky on his birthday and the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution. Kahlo and her husband, artist Diego Rivera, had convinced government officials to allow Trotsky and his second wife, Natalia Sedova, to live in exile in Mexico. The Russian couple moved into the Blue House (La Casa Azul), where they resided for two years.

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Artist
Frida Kahlo
Year
1937
Movement
Surrealism
Country
Mexico
Location
National Museum of Women in the Arts