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Frida Kahlo

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:NA Estimated At:5,000.00 - 5,500.00 USD
Frida Kahlo

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Auction Date:2011 Nov 09 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
DS, one page, 8 x 10.5, December 19, 1941. Declaration in Connection with Paintings, etc., and Sculptures, penned entirely in her hand, certifying that Kahlo is the “painter and producer of…one oil painting ‘Still life,’” which is being sold for $300 and transported by actress Paulette Goddard “by plane, Port of entry: Brownsville, Texas,” signed at the beginning and conclusion by Kahlo. Intersecting folds, one of which runs through one letter of the first signature, creasing to the left corners, an overlapping paper clip impression and staple hole towards the left corner, several official stamps, a foreign service stamp at the bottom, and two binder holes to the top, otherwise fine condition.

Amidst disintegrating marriages and countless affairs, Paulette Goddard and Frida Kahlo found a rare friendship despite Goddard's affair with Kahlo's on again-off again husband, muralist Diego Rivera. Goddard, who won the Riveras' hearts, is also credited with saving Rivera's life after he was suspected of the attempted murder of Leon Trotsky, Kahlo's one-time lover. After smuggling Kahlo to California, Rivera would paint Goddard in one of his most famous works, the Pan Am Unity Mural.

After remarrying, the Riveras returned to Mexico in 1941 when Kahlo's father died; she dipped into a deep depression and her health deteriorated. Fatigued, in constant pain and suffering for asthenia, she painted a "Still Life" for Goddard which later became known as "The Flower Basket" or "Basket of Flowers." According to Kahlo's diary, the hummingbird in the painting represented herself and the butterfly, Goddard, who was believed to have been Kahlo's lover as well. That year Goddard returned to Mexico for a film and flew the painting to Brownsville, TX. Today, "The Flower Basket" remains in a private American collection.
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