BELATED VALENTINES

Self Portrait as a Tehuana (Diego in My Thoughts), 1943

There was no shortage of interesting men in Frida Kahlo's life - she was at school with Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco, married to Diego Rivera and for a time shared her home with Leon Trotsky.

I find the relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera endlessly fascinating. Rivera divorced Kahlo in 1939 after fourteen years of marriage and they remarried the next year despite Diego's affair with Frida's sister. Frida once said of Rivera 'There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.' Ouch.

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