Frida

There is a Frida Kahlo exhibition on at the Art Gallery of New South Wales at the moment.

Kahlo is most well known for her confronting self portraits but I think one of her most striking works is this one titled The Suicide of Dorothy Hale.

The picture was a commissioned by Clare Luce to commemorate the death of her friend, Hale, who jumped to her death from an apartment building in New York.

I don't know what Luce was thinking when she commissioned Kahlo to paint her friend's remembrance portrait but the finished product was most certainly not what Luce had expected.