Treasures of the Blue House, Frida and Diego
In Mexico City, the Museum of Frida Kahlo exhibition is being held " Treasures of the Blue House, Frida and Diego " - personal belongings, photographs and letters belonging to the spouses artists Frida Kahlo /Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera /Diego Rivera.
The exposition includes artifacts never exhibited before: the first two photos taken and signed by Kahlo, never before exhibited paintings Rivera and others, but this is only the "tip of the iceberg," as Ricardo Perez Escamilla, curator of the exhibition. Among other things, shows the photo of Frida with a toy bus and a doll dramatizes an accident. Plots of this kind - a consequence of a car accident in which Frida got in his youth.
Frida Kahlo died in 1957 at age 47, her husband died three years later. Rivera asked not to publish the archive of his wife for 15 years. He instructed the exhibits of contemporary Mexican art collector and his latest lover - Dolores Olmedo.
She bequeathed the archive set is only after his death.
Contents of boxes with things Kahlo, uncovered in 2002, is still cataloged.
Inside were found thousands of photos, documents, magazines, publications of, a lot of clothes and toys that belonged to the famous couple.
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