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Monday, 08 September 2014 11:52

Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait Goes on View at the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Center

Frida Kahlo's 'Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird,' 1940. Frida Kahlo's 'Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird,' 1940.

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, celebrates the homecoming of one of its most famous and frequently borrowed art works, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s “Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” (1940). The painting will be on display through March 31, 2015.

Since 1990 the painting has been featured in exhibitions in more than 25 museums in the United States and in countries such as Australia, Canada, France, Spain and Italy.

The painting was most recently on view at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome. The work travels next to The New York Botanical Garden for the exhibition “Frida Kahlo’s Garden,” running from May 16 to Nov. 1, 2015, in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library’s Rondina and LoFaro Gallery.

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