The New York Times Reviews Master Drawings in New York

Frida Kahlo, “El Verdadero Vacilón (The True Tease)”, pencil on paper, 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches, signed and titled, 1946

MAMFA’s Surrealist drawing show received a favorable mention in Roberta Smith’s article in The New York Times Arts section on January 27, 2011. Ms. Smith featured an image of Frida Kahlo, “El Verdadero Vacilón,” noting how the drawing is a “dense, extended doodle, it embeds a lexicon of Kahlo motifs — a hand, veins, some eyes, several breasts — in a geodesic constellation fraught with stars and spirals that seem straight out of late Kandinsky.”

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