While still in Detroit, Frida slowly overcame her unhappiness following her miscarriage and took up painting again. In this self portrait, as well as many others, Frida wears a piece of pre-Columbian jewelry. This one, from her collection of many, is a necklace of jade beads. She appears fresh and attractive and expresses greater self-confidence than in her earlier self portraits. For the first time Frida appears in a self-portrait with a shadow of a mustache. This painting was purchased in early 1938 by the American actor Edward G. Robinson. In 2001, an image of this painting was featured on a first class U.S. commemorative postage stamp and a Mexican postage stamp. [http://www.fridakahlofans.com/c0130.html]