The Two Fridas

Frida Kahlo's 'Las Dos Fridas' (1939), painted in the weeks following her divorce from Diego Rivera, is a double self-portrait in which a 'loved' Frida in traditional Tehuana dress sits beside an 'unloved' Frida in a European white wedding gown, their hands and exposed hearts linked by a single thread of blood vessels. A summit of Kahlo's self-mythologising art, it is permanently displayed at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.