What is the title of Frida Kahlo’s 1936 painting showing her family across three generations?

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Frida Kahlo’s 1936 painting showing her family across three generations is titled My Grandparents, My Parents, and I.

The work presents Kahlo as a child in the foreground, with her parents, Guillermo Kahlo and Matilde Calderón, behind her. Her paternal and maternal grandparents appear above, creating a visual family tree. The composition also includes symbolic landscape and biological imagery.

Kahlo often used family history to explore identity, ancestry, nationality, and inheritance. Her father was a German-born photographer, while her mother was Mexican, and these backgrounds appear in the painting’s arrangement.

The title is sometimes shortened informally, but the full title identifies all three generations represented in the scene.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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