Self-Portrait with Stalin
2019 © Maxim Tabachnik
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Self-Portrait with StalinFrida Kahlo

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Painted in 1954, right before death, this political work shows Kahlo seated beside an imposing image of Stalin, whom she revered late in life. The portrait—originally titled Peace on Earth so the Marxist Science may Save the Sick and Those Oppressed by Criminal Yankee Capitalism—reflects her Marxist convictions and final artistic ideological defiance.