Which Mexican artist painted The Two Fridas in 1939?

The Mexican artist who painted The Two Fridas in 1939 was Frida Kahlo.

The painting, known in Spanish as Las dos Fridas, is a large double self-portrait showing two versions of Kahlo seated side by side and holding hands. One wears a European-style white dress, while the other wears a traditional Tehuana outfit associated with Kahlo’s Mexican identity.

Kahlo painted the work in 1939, the year her marriage to muralist Diego Rivera ended in divorce. The exposed hearts and connecting blood vessels have often been interpreted in relation to emotional pain, identity, and the artist’s divided feelings during that period. Kahlo and Rivera remarried the following year.

The Two Fridas was Kahlo’s first large-scale work and is now held by the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. It is sometimes loosely described as a conventional portrait, but it is more precisely a symbolic double self-portrait. The two figures represent different aspects of Kahlo rather than two separate historical women.