Diego and I

Diego and I (Diego y yo) is a 1949 oil-on-canvas-mounted-on-masonite self-portrait by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, measuring 30 by 22.4 cm, in the Eduardo F. Costantini Collection and shown at MALBA, the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.

Kahlo painted it in 1949, inscribing it in red 'México, Frida Kahlo, 1949, Diego y yo'. At the time Diego Rivera was involved in an affair with the film actress María Félix, who was also a friend of Kahlo's; although Kahlo treated the affair with jokes in public, the painting is generally read as an admission of how much it hurt.

Her tearful face fills the small picture. On her forehead, resting on her heavy eyebrows, sits a miniature portrait of Rivera marked with a third eye — a device she had used in the 1943 Self-Portrait as a Tehuana, also known as Diego on My Mind — signifying that he was literally inside her thoughts and expressing her belief in his intellectual superiority. Where most of her portraits show her hair bound up, here it falls loose and tangles around her neck like a constriction. The work is further dedicated 'to Florence and Sam with affection from Frida, Mexico, June 1949'.

The picture last appeared in public in 1998 and spent years in a Texas private collection. At Sotheby's in New York in 1990 it sold for 1.43 million dollars; on 16 November 2021 it returned to Sotheby's and brought 34.9 million, acquired by Eduardo F. Costantini, the founder of MALBA — at that date the highest auction price ever paid for a work of Latin American art, surpassing the record previously held by Rivera himself. Since 26 August 2022 it has been on display at MALBA.