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Nickolas Muray (American born in Hungary, 1892-1965). "Frida and Diego with Hat" gelatin silver print, #17 of 70, ca. 1939. Signed and annotated by Mimi Muray, the photographer's daughter, in pencil on the verso. A limited edition fine art photograph by Nickolas Muray depicting Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with Frida standing beside a seated Rivera who holds his hat. This was Frida and Diego's remarriage portrait and was part of a series of six images made from negatives that were discovered by Mimi Muray and her brother Chris after having sat in a trunk for at least 25 years. A remarkable photograph of Frida and Diego by Nickolas Muray, the great photographer who also happened to have an intimate and some have said symbiotic relationship with Frida, each sparking the other's creativity. Size (image): 12.875" L x 11" W (32.7 cm x 27.9 cm) Size (sheet): 17.3" L x 14.125" W (43.9 cm x 35.9 cm) Size (frame): 24.7" L x 25.125" W (62.7 cm x 63.8 cm)

About Nickolas Muray: Nickolas Muray was born in Szeged, Hungary, and immigrated to New York City in 1913. He became a respected portrait photographer and his images of artists and celebrities appeared in Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar. His social circle included Mexican Renaissance artists such as Miguel Covarrubias, Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, and Frida Kahlo, who was also his lover. In addition to being a gifted photographer, Muray was also a fencer who participated in the Olympics twice.

The following is Salomon Grimberg's insightful commentary on Nickolas Muray and his relationship with Frida Kahlo, "During Nickolas Muray's forty-five year career as a New York photographer, he developed a growing reputation that began during the decade of the Twenties when he photographed everybody who was anybody. At the time of his death, most Americans had seen, at one time or another, Muray's portraits of celebrities, Presidents, or advertisements. Whether they knew the identity of the photographer who had created these images, these had infiltrated America's psyche as icons with which it readily identified.

Between 1920 and 1940, Nickolas Muray made over 10,000 portraits. Who would have thought that the one of Frida Kahlo, c. 1939 would bring him greater acknowledgment than any? But it did. The portrait, made in the winter of 1938-39, while Kahlo sojourned in New York, attending her exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery, became the best known and loved portrait made by Nickolas Muray.

Muray and Kahlo were at the height of a ten-year love affair in 1939 when the portrait was made. Their affair had started in 1931, after Muray was divorced from his second wife and shortly after Kahlo's marriage to Mexican muralist painter Diego Rivera. It outlived Muray's third marriage and Kahlo's divorce and remarriage to Rivera by one year, ending in 1941. Muray wanted to marry, but when it became apparent that Kahlo wanted Muray for a lover, not a husband, Muray took his leave for good and married his fourth and last wife. He and Kahlo remained good friends until her death, in 1954.

After Kahlo received the portrait in Mexico, she wrote to Muray on June 3, 1939: 'Nick darling, I got my wonderful picture you send me, I find it even more beautiful than in New York. Diego says that it is as marvelous as a Piero de la Francesca. To me it is more than that, it is a treasure, and besides, it will always remind me that morning...[when] we went to your shop to take photos. This one was one of them. And now I have it near me. You will always be inside the magenta rebozo (on the left side).'" (source: Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery website)

Also included in this lot is a document featuring an image of Nickolas Muray's logo a woodcut created by Miguel Covarrubias ca. 1930, with the final page of a letter written by Frida Kahlo to Nickolas Muray from Paris on February 27, 1939, a brief description of "Frida Kahlo as seen by Nickolas Muray" and a list of the six photographs comprising a portfolio made from negatives found in a trunk by Muray's children after his death.

Please Note: Another Nickolas Muray gelatin silver print of "Frida and Diego with Hat" from the same edition of 70 is currently listed on 1stDibs for $3600.

Provenance: private Thornton, Colorado, USA collection

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Photo is mounted behind glass in an attractive custom frame but was examined outside the frame. Photograph is in excellent condition. It is signed and annotated by Mimi Muray, the photographer's daughter, in pencil on the verso. It is #17 of a limited edition of 70.