Collection of paintings and letters of Frida Kahlo declared fake

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Expected future products in the United States in November 2009 a book on Frida Kahlo, in which experts described a previously unknown collection of letters, diaries and paintings by Mexican artist, has been the subject of scandal: Many experts argue that the entire collection - a fake. Details the newspapers The Guardian and The Art Newspaper.
Author of the book "Finding Frida Kahlo" ( "In Search of Frida Kahlo", publisher Princeton Architectural Press) Barbara Levine (Barbara Levine), in the past - Exhibition Director Museum of Contemporary Art San Francisco, describes the archive Calo, owned by Mexican curator Carlos Noyole ( Carlos Noyola) and Leticia Fernandez (Leticia Fernandez) from the town of San Miguel de Allende. Csete, according to Levine, a collection inherited from an unidentified lawyer, who in turn received it from some woodcarver. The latter in 1200 subjects, constituting archive, gave herself Fried. The cost of collection has not been disclosed, and Noyola says he was not going to sell it, either now or in the future.
Collection Noyoly not researched any of the recognized experts on creativity Frida Kahlo. The very author of the book, too, does not undertake to judge its authenticity. However, Mexican heritage specialists Kahlo has appealed to the National Council for Culture and the Arts and the National Institute of Fine Arts with the requirement to protect the heritage of the artist, to stop the offensive fakes and explain their views on the situation with the book Levine. In particular, the director of the Museum of Frida Kahlo, Carlos Phillips Olmedo he called material from the book "Finding Frida Kahlo" "grotesque and vulgar."
(Lenta.ru)