Frida Kahlo, 1907 - 1954

- Corrido para A y L. 

Autograph poem signed "Frida", in Spanish, dated in Coyoacán, Viernes 3 de mayo de 1946. 2 pages on a double leaf. First page on lace paper. 
Ink on paper. 
8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
20,6 x 13,5 cm. 



- Ofrenda romantica. 



Autograph poem, unsigned, in Spanish. 1 page. 
Ink on paper.
9 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. 
25 x 17,3 cm. 





- Dolores. 



2 original drawings, unsigned, no date.  
Ink and pencil on paper. 
9 5/8 x 6 1/2 in. & 8 1/4 x 6 in. 
24,5 x 16,5 cm. & 20,9 x 15 cm.
The drawings come with an autograph note by the artist: Lina linda. Aqui te dejo unos garabatos que te dibujé para ver si te sirven. 



- Correspondence composed of 3 autograph letters, signed, and one autograph postcard, signed



Dating between 1946 & 1949. 
Ink on paper. 
8 1/2 x 6 in. 
21,5 x 15,5 cm.



- Original photograph showing Frida Kahlo and Lina and Arcady Boylter at a reception. 



No dated
10 1/8 x 8 in. 
25,8 x 20,2 cm. 

Lina and Arcady Boytler

Private American Collection (acquired from the above?)

Corrido para A y L published in Ahi les dejo mi retrato; Salomon Grimberg, Frida Kahlo: Song of herself, 2008.

Very rare collection of Frida Kahlo manuscripts.

In 1946, at the beginning of the year, Frida Kahlo comes to New York to be operated on her spine. She has great hope that the surgery will cure her excruciating back pain. Unfortunately, the operation did not work. 
Back in Mexico, she continued to suffer physical pain. In this painting, Frida presents herself with the body of a young stag and her own head crowned with antlers, pierced by nine arrows, in her spine and heart, and bleeding. Although the stormy, lightning-lit sky in the distance is a brightening hope for escape. The word "Carma", written on the lower-left corner, next to her signature expresses, in this time of deep depression and despondency, her incapacity of changing her own destiny.

However, lights come in her life with the support of her very close friends Arcady and Lina Boytler. 

On May 3, 1946, Frida gave this painting to her friends Lina and Arcady Boytler as a wedding gift. With the painting, she wrote a "corrido' (traditional Mexican song): 

Solito andaba el venado
rete triste y muy herido
hasta que en Arcady y lina
encontro calor y nido

Cuando el venado regrese
fuerte, alegre y aliviado
las heridas que ahora lleva
todas se las habran borrado

Gracias niños de mi vida,
gracias por tanto consuelo
en el bosque del venado
ya se esta aclarando el cielo

Ahi les dejo mi retrato,
pa' que me tengan presente,
todos los dias y las noches,
que de ustdes yo me ausente.

La tristeza se retrata
En todita mi pintura,
Pero asi es mi condicion,
ya no tengo compostura.

Sin embargo, la alegria
la llevo en el corazon,
sabiendo que arcady y lina
me quieren tal como soy.

Acepten este cuadrito
pintado con mi ternura,
a cambio de su cariño
y de su inmensa dulzura.

Frida, Coyoacán, Viernes 3 de Mayo de 1946. 

There's no coincidence. Lina and Arcady Boytler were always great support to Frida Kahlo, when she suffered from her back and when she suffered from Diego's infidelity.

After she offered the painting, Frida signed her letters to the Boytler "Tu venadito Frida" as in the letter dated "31 de Agosto de 47" regarding a portrait of Arcady Boytler with an eye on his forehead. She wrote to Lina in another letter (no date): "Dentro del mundo negro de mi vida, llegaron tus pinturas a llamarme a la luz a la ternura de tu mundo virgen lleno de mariposas, soles, mundos nuevos imagenes todos de tu niñez limpia". 

The friendship and affection between the artist and the Boytler lasted until Frida Kahlo's death. As evidence, when Frida was at the hospital, Arcady sent a large projector, a folding screen and 16 mm films. Arcady made sure that each day, a new film was shown. 

Manuscript poems by Frida are of the utmost rarity.