“Pele de Lappe was a teenager when she painted “The Eyes Have It,” a surreal depiction of a woman artist being hung at the hands of a male art critic. The painting is dated circa 1931, around the time she would have befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera during their visit to de Lappe’s native San Francisco. It’s possible that the painting is an outcome of one of Kahlo’s impromptu drawing circles, to which de Lappe was invited. Dreamlike, macabre imagery like the one in the painting was not de Lappe’s signature style, but the artwork contains the seed of social and political consciousness that Kahlo, Rivera, and other mentors would help foster during her lifetime…
Interesting Read : Extraordinary California Women Artists Working from 1860 to 1960//
