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Frida Kahlo
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Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoicoàn, Mexico City, to a Mexican mother and German father. At the age of fifteen, when she was preparing to enter medical school, she suffered a road accident. Though she never fully recovered, and her life would be increasingly filled with pain and disability, she began painting during her recuperation from the accident. She sent paintings to the well-established Mexican painter Diego Rivera. Rivera encouraged Kahlo, and in 1928 the two painters married; their stormy relationship would last for the rest of Kahlo's life.
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Frida Kahlo was born July 6, 1907 near Mexico City. When she was six, Kahlo contracted polio and had to spend nine months confined to her bed. During that time, she created an imaginary friend who she would later paint in "The Two Fridas." Once she got better, Frida Kahlo was more determined than ever to live life to the fullest. She became a tomboy at school and the leader of a group of rebellious youngsters (mostly boys) who pulled tons of pranks.
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This side-room includes a number of portraits of Kahlo's friends and patrons. During the months she spent in San Francisco, from 1930-31, she produced several portraits of people she met there. Amongst them, a careful pencil drawing of Lady Cristina Hastings, whose explosive personality intrigued Kahlo, and a nude of an African American woman, called Eva Frederick, about whom nothing else is known.
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On August 21, 1929, in a civil ceremony in Coyoacan, Kahlo and Rivera married. Kahlo became pregnant in the first year of marriage but had the first in a series of abortions and miscarriages, as it was feared her injuries from the accident could lead to fatal complications.
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Trotsky and Kahlo's affair lasted only a few months. With Natalia Sedova, Trotsky's wife and comrade, upset by the affair and the threat of an emotional eruption from the wildly jealous Rivera should he find out, there was the danger that it could provide an opening for Stalin's secret police to undermine Trotsky's political standing and breach his physical security. In the face of potential political disaster, both parties backed off.
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"Loaning my Frida to Tate is like letting go of one of my precious children," Madonna said at the time. "But I know she will be in good hands and the exhibit would not be complete without her."
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