Medium: Gelatin Silver Photo, Limited Edition, Estate Stamped and Signed, 1943

Dimensions: 20” x 24” Framed

Henle captured Kahlo in her local neighborhood of Coyacan. In this limited edition photograph, Henle shows Kahlo with her monkey enveloped in her arms, the monkey wrapping its arm around her neck. She looks fondly on the monkey.

Beginning a career that spanned six decades in Germany in 1928, Fritz Henle traveled through the Mediterranean, India, China, and Japan in the pre-war 1930s, documenting those travels with his trusted Rolleiflex, before emigrating to the US in 1936. Fritz Henle met Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera on his first trip to Mexico in 1936. Frida Kahlo, now an international icon, was photographed then as she and Henle wandered the Riveras' neighborhood of Coyoacán, went boating in the floating gardens of Xochimilco and shopped in the Toluca market. In 1943, Henle captured Kahlo in and around her studio, surrounded by her paintings and collection of pre-Colombian artifacts.