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moodboardmix · 5 months

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Casa Kupuri 27, Punta Negra, Nayarit, Mexico,

Central de Arquitectura

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theancientwayoflife · 11 months

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~ Kneeling Female Figure.

Culture: Nayarit

Date: 300 B.C.-A.D. 200

Period: Late Formative-Early Classic

Medium: Earthenware, white slip over slip paint in black and red.

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tlatollotl · 2 months

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pazzesco · 6 months

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->The Lost Painting

La Mesa Herida - (The Wounded Table), 1940 by Frida Kahlo

The Lost Painting

Frida Kahlo's "La Mesa Herida" (The Wounded Table) is considered to be her masterpiece. For a long time it hung in her dining room, before she donated it to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union rejected it considering it "bourgeois, formalist and decadent."

Photo: First exhibition organized by the Seminary of Mexican Culture and installed in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, inaugurated on 20 November 1942.

The Last Supper-like work was sent to Warsaw for an exhibition that would travel around several socialist countries, but the painting never made it past the first stop. "The Wounded Table" considered to be the one of the greatest exponents of surrealism, just vanished.

"The Wounded Table" became a holy grail for Kahlo scholars. It's reported that Kahlo herself lived with bitterness the loss and that Mexico tried by all means to locate the painting with the intention of returning it to the national heritage, but nothing was known about it - until now.

A Galician (NW Spain) art dealer has put it up for sale according to the interest of its owner, a Mexican settled in Europe.

Cristian López Márquez is that person who claims to have ended 65 years of mystery. With two other Mexican partners, he is the owner of the company The Billion Art, dedicated to the sale and purchase of works of art. He explains that, for the six and a half decades without knowing anything of what is considered the masterpiece of surrealism, it passed through two important private collections before reaching the hands of the current property.

The painting alleged to be "The Wounded Table" is in London, in a high-security vault that belongs to a private collection. The photo corresponds to the current status of the painting

Analyzed by experts

The dealer has no doubt that this is the coveted work of Frida Kahlo. Experts hired by his company were in charge of verifying this by contrasting the painting with that of other works by the Mexican artist. He calculates that the value of The "Wounded Table" is between 40 and 50 million euros: "The owner is looking for a buyer within European art circles, in which great collectors of works are made with paintings of this style", Cristian López says.

However, Kahlo scholars argue that López’s claim is dubious at best. Art historian Helga Prignitz-Poda, who has investigated the missing artwork in-depth, says images of López’s find reveal clear differences between the work in question and photographs of the original 1940 painting. Additionally, The Wounded Table was painted on wood, while this painting is listed as a work on canvas.

The newly resurfaced painting bears similarities to inaccurate replicas of the original, potentially suggesting that it’s a copy of a copy, according to Prignitz-Poda.

Visitors at the ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznan, Poland, look at a black-and-white photo reproduction of Kahlo's lost work, The Wounded Table. Janek Skarzynski / AFP via Getty Images

So the search continues for the Kahlo Masterpiece.

At 2.4 metres long by 1.2 metres high (eight by four feet), larger than a standard door, the painting was unusual for Kahlo, who preferred to work small, unlike her muralist ex-husband Rivera.

This self-portrait was painted during the end of 1939 to the beginning of 1940. In December of 1939, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's divorce became final. Frida started working on this painting as an expression of her despair and loneliness. This is her only other large painting, not only by size, but also by the complexity.

In the painting Frida is surrounded by objects which represent one aspect of her emotional situation. The table has human legs and its surface is bleeding on the few knots. This table is a symbol of Frida's sense of broken family from the divorce. There are several objects around the table. In the center was Frida herself, surrounded by all the objects who accompany her. She looks directly at the viewer, wearing her Tehuana clothes and jewelry, with blood dripping on her skirt, the same skirt she's wearing in "The Two Fridas."

The Two Fridas, 1939 by Frida Kahlo

Her hair are open on one side. A deep wound, no longer bleeding, can be seen on her neck. On one side is her sister Cristina's two children, which is a reflection of her desire to have her own children. On the other side is a deer, one of her favorite pet and she use that as her surrogate children. Sitting right next to her is a Nayarit figure. Frida gives to the Nayarit figure on her left side, a cup containing her last drops of blood so the Nayarit can drink it. The tall Judas figure is considered as Diego Rivera, who plays the role of the betrayal. The characters are arranged in the scene that recalls The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.

Perhaps one day it will be found. Many Kahlo scholars believe it was destroyed, likely burned during the war and lost forever.