Lettre autographe signée à Julien Levy. [Mexico], 29 novembre 1939.

"Stendhal would like me to have 45 paintings ready for next February. it is impossible ! (...) I am finishing now the second big paintings (...) Then I will start doing the six small ones which you so kindly will sell for me next year. I don't know yet what the hell I will paint. Try to tell me what you would like more or less (...) I feel less sad, but every moment there are more complications and one feels tired and stupid. I will send a present for you. Two "retablos" (I think in English you call them "votives") that you will love." Elle va participer à une exposition de Wolfgang Paalen à Mexico : "They want me to lend two paintings. Do you think I should exibit the two big ones I told you about ?" Elle conclut sa lettre sur une confession mélancolique, non sans humour :"I miss you Julien. When do you think we will see each other ? If it will be in two years, I will have more mustaches and you won't like me anymore (...) I will perhaps drive in an old car that I have, just to see you for a few days and come back to this rotten place". Elle demande des nouvelles de Duchamp : "Do you know some thing about Marcel and Mary ?" ([Mexico], 29 novembre 1939, 2 p. in-4).

Julien Levy offrit à Frida Kahlo sa première exposition personnelle au début du mois d'octobre 1938. La moitié des vingt-cinq œuvres présentées y fut vendue. Pendant son séjour, qu'elle entreprit seule, à New York, elle eut une liaison passionnée avec le photographe Nickolas Murray qui fit de magnifiques photos d'elle. À cette même période, elle eut de nouveau de grandes douleurs dans la colonne vertébrale ainsi qu'une infection de la peau à la main droite (voir aussi notice du lot 286).
Levy was having problems with his first wife Joella Haweis and was probably more involved in his relation with Muriel Streeter. Frida insists to know more about Muriel, which again brings forward the subject that she found special attraction to Levy's lover. In this letter Frida also established that she had met artist Leonor Fini, either in Paris or New York and felt sympathy towards her and maybe her work as well. She shares to Julien that she has been invited to the Fourth International Surrealist Exhibition that will take place at the Galería de Arte Mexicano in Mexico City, and the two large paintings Frida mentions in this letter are : "Las dos fridas" (The Two Fridas)  and "La mesa herida" (The wounded table).