The Friendship That Transformed Frida Kahlo

The Friendship That Transformed Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo, “Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (Autorretrato con pelo cortado)” (1940), oil on canvas (Digital Image © 2025 MoMA, N.Y.; © 2025 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York) Following the bold critical acclaim of her first solo exhibition in New York in 1938, Frida Kahlo set out for her first and only voyage to a war-threatened Europe. French Surrealist André Breton, …