In this self-portrait, Frida was wearing a wine-red velvet dress and looks like a princess in it. She sent it to Alejandro and hope he will keep her in his mind. This painting worked: after Alejandro received this paining, they went back to be together again. But he left for Europe in March 1927 because his parents don't want him to be together with Frida. She wrote a lot of letters after they are apart and in those letters she call herself with her Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress, calling it "your 'Boticeli'. She wrote this: "Alex, your 'Boticeli' has also become very sad, but I told her that until you come back, she should be the 'sound asleep one'; in spite of this she remembers you always." And in a few months on awaiting him coming back to Mexico, she wrote the letter with reference to this portrait: "You cannot imagine how marvelous it is to wait for you, serenely as in the portrait." It was obvious Frida was hoping her self-portrait has the magical power that can win back her love