Bendigo Art Gallery has announced the inclusion of two more of Frida Kahlo’s particularly significant works in its upcoming exhibition, Frida Kahlo: In her own image, which will open in March next year. The exhibition is an international exclusive with works transported directly from Mexico’s Museo Frida Kahlo located in the artist’s hometown of Coyoacán.
The first new work secured, Kahlo’s Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940), is considered to be one of her best works, created at the peak of her artistic maturity, and implementing powerful iconography from Indigenous Mexican culture. This piece will be displayed in Australia for the first time in this exhibition, after Bendigo Art Gallery secured a loan from the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
