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Frida  Kahlo.

She was born in Coyoacan, Mexico in 1907. Frida Kahlo was a great Mexican Painter. Although she was in the atmosphere of the Mexican muralists of her time, Frida Kahlo created a paint absolutely personal.

By the time she was 18 years old, she had a serious accident that forced a long convalescence, during this time she learned to paint. On august 21^st, 1929, she married Diego Rivera. In 1932, she had an abortion that affected his delicate sensibility and inspired two of his paints: Henry Ford Hospital and Frida y el Aborto.

When Breton knew of her paints, he invited her to France and New York, but in France, they didn’t like her paints. In 1953, she had to amputate the leg below the knee due to gangrene infection. During that time she didn’t paint, but she wrote poems in her diaries, all related with pain and remorse.

She died in Coyoacán on July 13^th of 1954. She was veiled in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City. Her last words were: "Espero alegre la salida y espero no volver jamás".