Frida Kahlo - a Secret revealed

Frida Kahlo’s The Wounded Table

This introduction to ‘The Wounded Table’ was written specially for us by Dr. Mariella C. Remund, Founder/Director of the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund, Baden-Baden, Germany, where a licensed replica of the original is on exhibition. Probably the most mysterious of Frida’s works - she painted it over a short period of time and under pressure during the first few weeks of her divorce from Diego Rivera - the painting was exhibited for the first time in January 1940; it then disappeared in 1955 on its way to an exhibition in Moscow. Only three photos, taken between 1940 and 1944, are known to document this painting.

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Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund, Baden-Baden

Painting: The wounded Table, (La Mesa Herida),1940, Oil on Canvas
122 x 244 cm, Location unknown.

Licensed replica  © Banco de México  Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008

Traditionally The wounded Table (1940, oil on canvas, 244 x 122 cm, location unknown) has been compared to The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci; the founders of the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund researched the painting for three years before having it replicated, and have given the work a totally new interpretation. 
The wounded Table is a representation of death (as separation), of the disintegration of Frida Kahlo’s mexicanidad and of her search for her own identity.
NOTE: Diego Rivera felt committed to mexicanidad, by which he meant the return to Mexican origins in order for Mexican people to achieve their own social and cultural self-confidence and identity. By marrying Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo followed him in this commitment …....
…more about this story:  http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/home/frida-kahlos-wounded-table

Please look for more about this painting: 
http://www.fridakahlostory.com/frida-blog/frida-kahlo-la-mesa-heriada-the-wounded-table
…. and also here:
http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/home/frida-kahlos-wounded-table