Signed document, partly autograph, signed « Frida Kahlo », Mexico 19 December 1941; 1 page in-4 format, imprint fi lled out longhand on letterhead “Foreign Service of the United States of America,” with ink stamp of the Embassy of the United States and fi scal stamp; in English.
Export certifi cate concerning the shipping of Frida Kahlo’s painting The Flower Basket originally called Still Life.
“Mexico Dec. 19th 1941. I Frida Kahlo do hereby declare that I am the painter or producer of certain works of art, viz: one oil painting « Still Life » size 65 centimetres diameter; that the said paintings are originals ; Frida Kahlo. Price: Dollars 300.00. Carried by Miss Paulette Goddard by plane. Port entry: Brownsville Texas (…).”
Frida Kahlo had just remarried Diego Rivera (following their fi rst divorce in 1938). The actress Paulette GODDARD (1910-1990) fi rst met Frida 104 Kahlo in 1941, and was the mistress of Diego Rivera.
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