Fulan-Chang and I

Mediums: oil, wood.
Dimensions: 40 x 28 сm.
Location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York (the USA).

The painting debuted at an exhibition at the Levy New York gallery and was one of the works that most fascinated Andre Breton, the founder of Surrealism. The arrangement of figures in the portrait indicates the artist’s interest in the motif of the Madonna with a child. Kahlo depicted herself several times with the Fulan-Chang monkey that Rivera gave her as if it was a child whom she had lost several times. At the same time, in the medieval tradition, small spider monkeys symbolize the devil, heresy and paganism, which lead to men’s vices.