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Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by Mexican nature and folk culture. She used a naive folk art style to explore identity, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. She often painted her own experience of chronic pain.
Frida Kahlo was severely injured in a bus accident on the 17th of September 1925, when an iron handrail pierced her pelvis. She spent months recovering in bed, where she began to paint seriously for the first time.
Frida Kahlo was married to the muralist Diego Rivera. They wed in a civil ceremony on the 21st of August 1929, divorced in November 1939, and remarried on the 8th of December 1940.
Frida Kahlo died on the 13th of July 1954, at the age of 47. The official cause was listed as pulmonary embolism, though no autopsy was performed. She had been in declining health for years, including the amputation of her right leg at the knee in August 1953.
Frida Kahlo spent most of her childhood and adult life at La Casa Azul, her family home in Coyoacan. The house is now the Frida Kahlo Museum, and it also sheltered the exiled Soviet leader Leon Trotsky between January 1937 and April 1939.
Frida Kahlo's 1940 self-portrait The Dream sold in 2025 for $54.7 million, the highest price any work by a woman artist has reached at auction. It surpassed earlier Kahlo records, including Diego and I, which sold for $1,430,000 in 1990.