This painting has another name: "What the Water Gave Me". In one conversation with her friend Julien Levy she explained this painting: "It is an image of passing time about time and childhood games in the bathtub and the sadness of what had happened to her in the course of her life"...signed and dated as "1939". But it was painted in the previous year...exhibited in Paris by Breton in January 1939 unsigned and undated. When the painting..." http://www.fridakahlo.org/what-i-saw-in-the-water.jsp