The Bus (1929) by Frida KahloMuseo Dolores Olmedo
On 17 September 1925 Frida was riding a bus to Coyoacán, accompanied by her boyfriend Alejandro Gómez Arias. They were returning home from school.
Frida never dared to depict the accident directly in a work, though she did make some drawings and this painting entitled The Bus, which shows a group of passengers riding the same means of transport.
The painting shows a barefoot indigenous woman...
...a worker...
...a middle-class gentleman...
...and a young woman who might well be Frida herself.
A child is looking out the window on a landscape full of calm.
A shop named La Risa (The Laughter) stands out. This detail is characteristic of Frida Kahlo’s black humor, who in this way represented the moment just before the accident.
