Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait With Cropped Hair: Expanded Edition

In 1940, after her divorce from Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo turned to self-portraiture to channel her emotional and psychological impulses. In Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, the painting replaces her usual vibrant palette with neutral tones and exchanges her Tehuana dress for an ill-fitting suit; moreover, her hair appears cropped and almost "alive," curling around her chair.

The volume—illustrated and focused on several of Kahlo's self-portraits—contextualizes this work through the Mexican Revolution, the Surrealist tradition, and the way in which Kahlo constructed her artistic identity, placing the painting within the influences of popular culture and her personal life.