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Frida Kahlo

The Suicide of Dorothy Hale

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About the artwork

Frida Kahlo’s painting depicts the death of the actress and showgirl Dorothy Hale. Clare Boothe Luce commissioned Kahlo to paint a remembrance portrait, imagining an ordinary portrait that could be given to Hale’s mother. Luce was shocked when the painting was revealed, and nearly destroyed it. Instead, the artist Isamu Noguchi made some revisions to the piece, including removing any mention of Luce in the writing at the bottom. It now reads ‘In New York City on the 21st of October 1938, at 6:00 in the morning, Dorothy Hale committed suicide by throwing herself from a very high window in the Hampshire House. In her memory this retablo was executed by Frida Kahlo.’

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Artist Frida Kahlo
Artwork The Suicide of Dorothy Hale
Exhibition Frida: The Making of an Icon
Date of work 1938
Credit Original: Oil paint on masonite with painted wooden frame 58.4 x 49.5 cm Phoenix Art Museum. Gift of an anonymous donor

ABOUT FRIDA KAHLO

Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) was a Mexican artist whose paintings, determination and activism saw her become one of the most influential artists of all time, a cultural phenomenon, and an internationally recognised commercial icon. After contracting Polio as a child, and receiving further injury in a bus accident aged 18, Kahlo decided to abandon her study of medicine to become an artist. Her championing of Mexican and indigenous culture led to her becoming a celebrated figure in her home country and abroad, and her bold depictions of physical and emotional pain, sexuality, and the female form have made her a key figure for feminist, LGBTQ+ and disabled communities. Best known for her self-portraits, her 1940 painting, The Dream (The Bed), holds the record for most expensive painting by a Latin American or woman artist, selling 2025 for $54.7 million.

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