![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Based primarily on numerous firsthand interviews with people who knew Frida, it remains the definitive treatment of the artist’s life. But the stars finally aligned in Frida’s favor in 1983, when Hayden Herrera produced her engaging Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo. She had only two solo shows, one of them arranged by a female colleague, photographer Lola Álvarez Bravo. An eccentric, the wife of famous artist Diego Rivera, and unconventional in her beauty, she never attained major status during her lifetime. Still, for a long time, Frida suffered the discrimination all women artists endure. © 2020 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Frida Kahlo: El Aborto (Frida and the Miscarraige), 1932, lithograph, 8 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches. ![]()
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