Meet the Artist
Frida Kahlo
Artist Frida Kahlo was considered one of Mexico's
greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was
severely injured in a bus accident. Kahlo later became politically
active and married fellow communist artist Diego Rivera in 1929. She
exhibited her paintings in Paris and Mexico before her death in 1954.
While she never considered herself a surrealist, Kahlo befriended one of
the primary figures in that artistic and literary movement, Andre
Breton, in 1938. That same year, she had a major exhibition at a New
York City gallery, selling about half of the 25 paintings shown there.
Kahlo also received two commissions, including one from famed magazine
editor Clare Boothe Luce, as a result of the show.
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