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Provenance

Private Collection, Dallas Christie's, New York, 30 May 2001, lot 62A Vergel Foundation, Delaware (acquired at the above sale) Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, El Museo del Barrio, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection , 2002 Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art; Osaka, Suntory Museum; Nagoya City Art Museum and Kochi, The Museum of Art, Women Surrealists in Mexico , 2003-04, no. 43, p. 100, illustrated in color Mexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Frida Kahlo: National Homage, 1907-2007 , 2008, no. 95, p. 370, illustrated in color; p. 389 Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau and Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Frida Kahlo: Retrospective , 2010, no. 109, p. 192, illustrated in color; p. 249 Istanbul, Pera Museum, Suma and Iman Kiraç Foundation, Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera from the Gelman Collection , 2010-11, n.n., pp. 138 and 141, illustrated in color (titled Carma (Sadja) ) Art Gallery of Ontario and Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting , 2012-13, p. 79, illustrated in color Ishøj, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Frida Kahlo: A Life in Art , 2013-14, no. 19, p. 106 Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, Frida Kahlo , 2014, p. 163, illustrated in color Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, NSU Museum of Art, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection & 20th Century Mexican Art from the Stanley and Pearl Goodman Collection , 2015, p. 43, pp. 38 and 77, illustrated in color Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Phoenix, The Heard Museum, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection , 2016-17, n.n., p. 48, illustrated in color; p. 86 Poznan, Zamek Cultural Centre, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The Polish Context , 2017-18 New York, Brooklyn Museum, Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving , 2019 Nashville, Frist Art Museum, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection , 2019

Literature

Robin Richmond, Frida Kahlo in Mexico , San Francisco, 1994, p. 31, illustrated in color

Catalog summary

Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico Frida Kahlo 1907 - 1954 Máscaras (Carma I) signed Frida Kahlo and dated 1946 and 46 (lower center) brush and sepia on paper 8 ½ by 10 ⅝ in. 21.6 by 27 cm. Executed in 1946. Provenance Private Collection, Dallas Christie's, New York, 30 May 2001, lot 62A Vergel Foundation, Delaware (acquired at the above sale) Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited New York, El Museo del Barrio, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection , 2002 Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art; Osaka, Suntory Museum; Nagoya City Art Museum and Kochi, The Museum of Art, Women Surrealists in Mexico , 2003-04, no. 43, p. 100, illustrated in color Mexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Frida Kahlo: National Homage, 1907-2007 , 2008, no. 95, p. 370, illustrated in color; p. 389 Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau and Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Frida Kahlo: Retrospective , 2010, no. 109, p. 192, illustrated in color; p. 249 Istanbul, Pera Museum, Suma and Iman Kiraç Foundation, Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera from the Gelman Collection , 2010-11, n.n., pp. 138 and 141, illustrated in color (titled Carma (Sadja) ) Art Gallery of Ontario and Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting , 2012-13, p. 79, illustrated in color Ishøj, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Frida Kahlo: A Life in Art , 2013-14, no. 19, p. 106 Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, Frida Kahlo , 2014, p. 163, illustrated in color Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, NSU Museum of Art, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection & 20th Century Mexican Art from the Stanley and Pearl Goodman Collection , 2015, p. 43, pp. 38 and 77, illustrated in color Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Phoenix, The Heard Museum, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection , 2016-17, n.n., p. 48, illustrated in color; p. 86 Poznan, Zamek Cultural Centre, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The Polish Context , 2017-18 New York, Brooklyn Museum, Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving , 2019 Nashville, Frist Art Museum, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection , 2019 Literature Robin Richmond, Frida Kahlo in Mexico , San Francisco, 1994, p. 31, illustrated in color