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Lot 280

KAHLO (FRIDA)
Autograph transcript in red crayon of the song 'Cruz de Mayo', [United States, between 1929 and 1941]

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24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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KAHLO (FRIDA)

Autograph transcript in red crayon of the song 'Cruz de Mayo', comprising some forty-six lines, beginning: "Cruz de Mayo Sevillana/ Cruz de Mayo que en mi patio laventé...", with accents entered in pencil, written on a sheet bearing part of a draft in another hand of a letter in English (possibly by Clifford Wight), both sides of a single sheet, one corner torn off before the song was written out, light dust-staining, 4to, [United States, between 1929 and 1941]

Footnotes

FRIDA KAHLO CELEBRATES THE COMING OF SUMMER. This manuscript of the famous Andalucian folk song 'Cruz de Mayo' (written by Salvador Valverde in 1921) derives the estate of Clifford Wight, whose chief beneficiary was the present owner's mother. Wight, himself an artist, was Diego Rivera's secretary, translator and technical assistant during the period Rivera was living in the United States between 1929 and 1941, and executing his murals at Detroit, San Francisco and New York. Wight's papers are now at the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries.

Saleroom notices

It is likely that the piece was written between November 1930 and May 1931 when Kahlo stayed at 716 Montgomery whilst working on a portrait of Jean Wight. We are grateful to William Maynez of the City College of San Francisco for this additional information.

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