Frida Kahlo: Self-portrait; memory aka the heart, 1937
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1946 Frida painted this self-portrait for her patron, the engineer Eduardo Morillo Safa, after a botched operation in New York. She wrote to him about the painting and about the scars "...which those surgeon sons of bitches landed me with". In the message "Tree of hope, remain strong", which is written on her flag, she seems to be giving herself courage. The phrase is taken from one of her favorite songs, "Cielito Lindo".
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'I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best' - Frida Kahlo.
Frida Kahlo: Self-portrait; memory aka the heart, 1937