frida kahlo

     

At a May 1995 auction, a painting by her sold for $3.2 million, barely topping one by her husband

Trivia about frida kahlo

  • She's seen wearing a rebozo in her 1937 "Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky"
  • Items recently uncovered at her home & museum include dresses from Oaxaca & earrings probably from Picasso
  • Christianity & Aztec ritual inspired the thorn necklace worn by this Latina woman in a masochistic 1940 self-portrait
  • Christianity & Aztec ritual inspired the thorn necklace worn by this Latina woman in a masochistic 1940 self-portrait
  • In "The Years with Laura Diaz", Laura spends part of her long life as a companion to this Mexican female artist
  • Hayden Herrera's biography of this Mexican woman was the basis for a movie
  • This artist who painted many revealing self-potraits was portrayed on film by Salma Hayek in 2002
  • This Mexican self-portrait painter underwent about 35 operations, including the amputation of a leg
  • In 1938 this Mexican woman raised some eyebrows with her "Self-portrait with Monkey"
  • Artwork brought to China for the expo included a van Gogh, a Gauguin, and a self-portrait by this woman in the Mexico pavilion
  • In July 1954 her coffin was draped with a hammer & sickle flag while lying in state in Mexico's Palace of Fine Arts
  • A 1937 article on "Senoras of Mexico" showed her as Mrs. Diego Rivera
  • 2002:Salma Hayek as this Mexican artist
  • Her "Diego and I" is a portrait of herself with a smaller one of Diego Rivera on her forehead
  • It's been said that this painter changed her birth year to 1910 to coincide with the Mexican Revolution
  • In her 1949 painting "Diego and I", Diego Rivera is depicted on her forehead
  • In 2006 "Roots", a 1943 painting by her, sold for $5.6 million, then the record for a Latin American work