MOMA Paintings

Frido Kahlo
Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair.
1940
Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico in 1907. Throughout her life she pretended she was born in 1910, the same year Mexico gained its independence. She wished her life began with the new life of modern Mexico. She had a love for independence.

She was stricken with polio as a child and was seriously injured in a bus accident later in life