Auction Date:2012 Apr 18 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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
Extremely rare 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. Kahlo painted ‘Still Life,’ which later became known as ‘Basket of Flowers,’ while steeped in a deep depression in the wake of her father’s death in 1941. According to Kahlo's diary, the hummingbird in the painting represented herself and the butterfly, Paulette Goddard, who was believed to have been lover to both Kahlo and her on-again, off-again husband, artist Diego Rivera. 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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