SELF PORTRAIT with THORN NECKLACE and HUMMINGBIRD - "Frida Kahlo 1940"

Acrylic and paper mache on canvas / panel

25"h x 19.5"w x 4"d

Kahlo’s 1940 self‑portrait presents her as both subject and symbol, framed by lush leaves, a thorn necklace, and the black cat, hummingbird and monkey that deepen the work’s tension and myth. In Stephen Hansen’s Great Moments in Art, his three‑dimensional painter works on the scaffolding, with a cat and a hummingbird serving as the model's or simply drawn there by the irresistible promise of being included in Kahlo's painting.