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Frida Kahlo: Das Gesamtwerk (German Edition)

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In 1988, three renowned Kahlo "Gurus", Helga Prignitz-Poda, Salomón Grimberg and Andrea Kettenmann, embarked upon an ambitious project to identify and catalog every piece of Kahlo art: paintings, drawings, sketches, watercolors and some artifacts. They published their findings in this 309 page catalogue raisonné called "Frida Kahlo - Das Gesamtwerk" (The Complete Works). The book provides the following information about each piece: an image of the piece (some color and some B/W), Title (English, Spanish and German), Size, Medium, Date, Location (as of 1988), Signed or Not Signed, and Dated or Not Dated. A brief commentary is provided for some of the pieces.

All of the text in this book is in German. However, with all of the FREE online translation software available, you can get a fairly decent translation of the data you're interested in. It's the most complete list of her works that I've ever seen and it contains works that I have never seen before. However, since its publication 20 years ago, other works have surfaces that are not referenced in this catalogue and the location of some works has changed.

This book is out of print but used editions are available for sale....but expensive. This book is sometimes available in libraries so check your local library if you're interested.