This self-portrait was painted the year Frida and Diego were married. It portrays the Frida that Rivera loved. Here she has replaced the Renaissance style of her previous paintings with the more traditional Mexican folk style of painting that was being used by Diego in his murals. This painting is in sharp contrast to her first self-portrait (1926) in which she appears as the melancholy aristocrat in dark flat colors. She now uses bright vibrant colors of the Mexican culture. This trend would continue throughout the rest of her painting career.
In June of 2000, this painting was auctioned at Sotheby's in New York for five million dollars, making Kahlo the highest selling Latin American artist in history. The buyer was an American collector.