Frida Kahlo looks directly at the camera with a cigarette in her left hand and a large flowered…

Frida with Cigarette

Artist Nickolas Muray (American, 1892 - 1965)

Sitter Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907 - 1954)

Date1941

MediumGiclée print

DimensionsImage: 15 7/16 × 11 inches (39.2 × 27.9 cm)
Sheet: 19 1/16 × 13 1/8 inches (48.4 × 33.3 cm)
Matted: 24 3/4 × 20 1/8 inches (62.9 × 51.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Nickolas Muray Photo Archives.

Object number2019.30

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Copyright© Nickolas Muray Photo Archives. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextNickolas Muray met and befriended the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias in 1923. Covarrubias had come to New York on a six-month grant from the government of Mexico, and his caricatures and illustrations were widely published in many of the magazines that regularly featured Muray’s photographs. Covarrubias had a wide and glamorous circle of friends, which included his former instructor Diego Rivera and Rivera’s wife, Frida Kahlo. When Muray traveled to Mexico to vacation with Covarrubias and his wife, Rosa, in 1931, he would meet the charismatic Kahlo for the first time. From that meeting sprang a love affair that spanned ten years and a deep friendship that would endure for the rest of their lives. Muray made thousands of portraits between 1920 and his death in 1965. Among Muray’s most remarkable images are his collection of portraits of the iconic Frida Kahlo, whom he met when she was known simply as the wife of artist Diego Rivera, not yet as an artist in her own right. Consistently invigorated by the colors and patterns of Kahlo’s Tehuana costume, these dynamic photographs present this iconic artist, best known for her self portraits, as she was viewed by another.

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