The Frame (El marco in Spanish) is a 1938 self-portrait by Frida Kahlo.

[1] The painting features Kahlo's self-portrait in oil on a sheet of aluminum framed in glass which she purchased from a market in Oaxaca, Mexico.

[3] The painting is notable as the first work by a 20th-century Mexican artist to be purchased by a major international museum, when it was acquired by the Louvre in 1939.

The painting is now shown at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

[5] Upon Kahlo's death in 1954, the New York Times stated that she was "said to have been the first woman artist to sell a picture to the Louvre.