Rare photos of the last years of Frida Kahlo's life
In 1950, photographer Gisele Freund came to Mexico — she thought she would spend two weeks there. Giselle left the country two years later. There she met Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Later, Giselle became a frequent guest at their home in Mexico City. She took hundreds of pictures of artists at work and in intimate moments of their lives.
Lively, very personal portraits are one of the last photographs of Frida Kahlo: at the end of her life she was very ill — she suffered from gangrene and died in 1954, at the age of 47.
This year the book "Frida Kahlo: Photographs of Giselle Freund" is published with hundreds of rare shots of legendary artists — many of them have never been published before.
"She was an amazing creature, but in a very bad condition... not only because of the physical pain, but also because she was a very contradictory person. She loved men, but she didn't turn away from women either. One day she said: "I don't want to live long, I suffer a lot," — Giselle Frond.
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Keywords: Portrait | Rare photos | Frida kahlo