| Henry Ford Hospital | |
|---|---|
| The Lost Desire, The Flying Bed | |
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| Artist | Frida Kahlo |
| Year | 1932 |
| Medium | Oil on metal |
| Dimensions | 30.5 cm × 38 cm (12.0 in × 15 in) |
| Location | Dolores Olmedo Museum, Xochimilco, Mexico City |
Henry Ford Hospital is a 1932 oil-on-metal painting by the Mexican artist 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 31⁄2 months pregnant. Depictions of childbirth, abortion, or miscarriage are rare in the canon of Western painting,[1] and Kahlo is "one of the only major artists to directly communicate her reproductive grief through visual art."[2] The "bloody and terrifying"[3] painting opened a defining and influential era of Kahlo's career.[4] The painting's first title was The Lost Desire.[5] An alternate title is The Flying Bed[6] (La Cama Volando).[7]
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- ^ Marcondes, Ciro Inácio; De Moraes, Vanessa Daniele (25 August 2017). "O imaginário da maternidade em Frida Kahlo" [Images of maternity in Frida Kahlo]. Intexto (in Spanish) (40): 114–132. doi:10.19132/1807-8583201740.114-132. ISSN 1807-8583.