The Two Fridas [SEP] collection
piece was completed by Kahlo shortly after her divorce, the European Frida is missing a piece of herself, her Diego.
According to Kahlo's friend, Fernando Gamboa, the painting was inspired by two paintings that Kahlo saw earlier that year at the Louvre, Théodore Chassériau's "The Two Sisters" and the anonymous "Gabrielle d'Estrées and One of Her Sisters".
"The Two Fridas" is housed at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.
Birger Sjöberg
Birger Sjöberg (1885–1929) was a Swedish poet, novelist and songwriter, whose best-known works include the faux-naïf song collection "Fridas Bok" (Frida's Book) and the novel "Kvartetten Som Sprängdes" (The Quartet That Split Up), a somewhat Dickensian relation about stock-exchange gambling in the twenties, and the frantic efforts to recover.
Originally a journalist, Sjöberg wrote songs in his spare time. His debuted as a serious writer with the 1922 publication of "Fridas