Diego and I – Frida Kahlo (1949)

🖼️ Diego and I – Frida Kahlo (1949)
Hand-painted reproduction – By Alpha Reproduction

A silent cry of love and pain: Frida Kahlo facing her consuming passion

Painted in 1949, Diego and I (Diego y yo) is one of Frida Kahlo's most intimate and heartbreaking self-portraits. It is a small work, but of exceptional emotional intensity, in which the artist literally displays Diego Rivera on her own forehead, expressing the suffering of an obsessive, unstable, and painful love. This painting, both a confession and an exorcism, alone summarizes Frida's tormented soul, caught between emotional dependence and the desire for emancipation.

A closed face, open tears, an exposed heart

Diego in his mind, Frida in her tears

Frida paints herself in bust, facing forward, on a neutral and stifling background. Her face is frozen, her eyes full of tears, her mouth tight. On her forehead is depicted the face of Diego Rivera, with a third open eye, symbol of higher consciousness or power over her.
It's a portrait within the portrait, where the lover becomes at once muse, tyrant, and obsession.

Frida's disheveled hair wraps around her like vines, evoking emotional suffocation, destructive jealousy, but also visceral loyalty. She does not speak, she cries, but she reveals herself, in all the lucid vulnerability of a love impossible to extinguish.

A work born of betrayal and attachment

This painting was created at a time when Diego Rivera was having an affair with the actress María Félix, which rekindled in Frida a feeling of betrayal, loss, and emotional insecurity. Rather than hiding her pain, she transforms it into a powerful pictorial icon, which shows love as both a force and a prison.

Hand-painted reproduction – By Alpha Reproduction

A powerful and symbolic work, recreated with emotional accuracy

At Alpha Reproduction, this artwork is entirely hand-painted in oil on canvas, with particular attention paid to the expression of the face, to the texture of the tears, and to the mental presence of Diego on Frida's forehead.

Our artists carefully reproduce:

• The painful and silent face of Frida

• The mini-portrait of Diego with his third eye

• realistic tears, tangled hair, neutral background

• The psychological intensity of the original painting, which has become iconic

📜 Certificate of authenticity provided
📐 Customizable formats – stretched or rolled canvas
🖼️ Simple, symbolic, or modern framing upon request

A work for those who understand complex, passionate, and vulnerable love

Diego and I is perfect for a personal space, an intimate gallery, an artist's studio, a therapy office, or a feminist collection. It speaks to those who know the passion that consumes, the pain that reveals, and the art that frees.

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At Alpha Reproduction, we paint with expertise and respect for the emotions that inhabit every brushstroke of Frida.

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