Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Monkeys (1943) Credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty
A new Frida Kahlo exhibition is about to open at Tate Modern, with a very different feel from the modern Mexican artist’s last show at the gallery in 2005. That exhibition gathered more than 80 works to celebrate Kahlo the artist. This one, with only around 30 works by Kahlo herself, will examine something else: a phenomenon sometimes described as “Fridamania”, acknowledging her astonishing popularity, and not only with collectors (last autumn, one of Kahlo’s paintings sold at auction for almost £42m – the highest price ever paid for an artwork by a woman).
