Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair

Frida Kahlo · 1940

Before you is Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, painted in nineteen forty, just after Kahlo's divorce from Diego Rivera. Her hair is shorn, she is wearing his suit, and a song lyric is written across the top of the canvas like a taunt.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 15 3/4 x 11" (40 x 27.9 cm) · Credit Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.

Hanging beside it in The Philip Johnson Galleries: Workman. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Frida Rivera

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Self Portrait (Autorretrato), Self-Portrait I, Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Palette, Portrait of Maria Lani, Self-Portrait with a Cigarette

More by Frida Kahlo here: My Grandparents, My Parents, and I, Fulang-Chang and I