Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Frida Kahlo
Xibalba-Alado-Xólotl
Auction Closed
May 18, 09:51 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Collection of Jay I. Kislak: Sold to Benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
Frida Kahlo
1907 - 1954
Xibalba-Alado-Xólotl
signed Soñado por Frida Kahlo (lower center); inscribed Xibalba (left edge) Alado Xolotl (lower center) 7 Rios (lower right)
pastel and crayon on paper
8¾ by 11½ in.
22.2 by 29.2 cm.
Executed circa 1950.
We wish to thank Professor Luis Martín Lozano for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this work.
Rafael Coronel, Cuernavaca (a gift from the above)
Juan Coronel Rivera, Mexico City (a gift from the above)
Fine Arts of Ancient Lands, New York
Acquired from the above in 1991
Martha Zamora, Frida: El pincel de la angustia, Mexico City, 1987 and 2007, n.n., p. 375, illustrated in color
Helga Prignitz–Poda; Salomon Grimberg; Andrea Kettenmann; Frida Kahlo Das Gesamtwerk, Frankfurt, 1988, no. 241, pp. 216 and 280, illustrated in color
Luis-Martín Lozano, ed., Frida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings, Cologne, 2021, no. 69, p. 537, discussed
Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Frida Kahlo–Tina Modotti, 1983, no. 87, p. 108
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia and Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, The Art of Frida Kahlo, 1990, no. 33, p. 50, illustrated
Miami, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Latin American Art from Miami Collections, 1994-95, n.n.
Miami, Miami Art Museum, Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation, 1998, no. 367