Self-Portrait with Monkey, 1938, Oil on masonite, 16" x 12", Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York In October 1938, Frida staged her first one-woman exhibition at the Levy Gallery ...

Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter who made quite ... intrigue is that on her shoulders are a black cat and a monkey. At first glance, this portrait looks calm, but a closer look shows the pain ...

One of Frida’s credited consultants is Kahlo’s great ... as a subject for doing paintings. They are very simple, before she started to paint flowers in hair and monkeys. I love the symbolism ...