Pratt gave Kahlo castor oil (a purgative known to induce uterine contractions) and quinine, which together was a formula for inducing miscarriage, i.e., a medical abortion. (Kahlo considered Rivera to be an infant of sorts, and painted him as such on at least one occasion.) Dr. In the letter she itemized her doubts about her ability to deliver a healthy child, challenges with her schedule, her lack of family support, and Rivera's inability to parent. Pratt at Henry Ford Hospital approximately a week prior. Leo Eloesser that she was two months pregnant and had first gone to see Dr. Per Kahlo's biographer Hayden Herrera, on 26 May she wrote her friend and advisor Dr. Kahlo was 24 years old at the time of her summer 1932 pregnancy. She had post-polio symptoms her father had epilepsy, which she was apparently concerned would be a genetic trait passed on to her children she was plagued with chronic back pain and assorted infections and by all accounts she desperately wanted to have a baby fathered by her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera. Her pelvis had been broken and her vagina was pierced by a metal bar in a catastrophic traffic accident, and she likely had uterine scarring. An alternate title is The Flying Bed ( La Cama Volando ).įrida Kahlo had a complicated obstetric/gynecological medical history. The painting's first title was The Lost Desire. Depictions of childbirth, abortion, or miscarriage are rare in the canon of Western painting, and Kahlo is 'one of the only major artists to directly communicate her reproductive grief through visual art.' The 'bloody and terrifying' painting opened a defining and influential era of Kahlo's career.

Henry Ford Hospital is a 1932 oil-on-metal painting by Frida Kahlo about her experience of delivering a dead male fetus on 4 July at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, United States, when she was approximately 3 1⁄ 2 months pregnant. Urn:oclc:835932469 Republisher_date 20131231020147 Republisher_operator Scandate 20131228112541 Scanner Olmedo Museum, Xochimilco, Mexico City Urn:lcp:frida00hayd:epub:a55df35e-e18e-4279-99cf-d30310af52b3 Extramarc MIT Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier frida00hayd Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1kh31p7d Invoice 11 Isbn 0060085894 Lccn 80008688 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL7274716M Openlibrary_edition Internetarchivebookdrive Edition Reprinted. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:40:08 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1111403 Boxid_2 CH129925 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Containerid_2 X0008 Donor

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