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July 6, 1907- July 13, 1954

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At the age of 18 Kahlo was on a bus that collided with a trolley car. As a result of this accident Kahlo suffered several injuries including: a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone ribs and pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, a crushed and dislocated foot, and a dislocated shoulder. The accident left her in a great deal of pain and she spent three months in a full body cast. As a result of the accident during the following thirty years, she had as many as 35 surgeries mainly on her back, right leg and foot. Shortly after she had spinal surgery for this accident she painted "The Broken Column."

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In her career, Kahlo created 143 paintings out of which 55 are self-portraits. Kahlo said "I often paint myself because I am often alone and because I am the subject I know best." Her self portraits often include interpretations of physical and psychological wounds. Kahlo's self-portraits are considered among the finest ever created. Her most famous self-portrait is perhaps "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird." She is known as the master of self-portraits.

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Kahlo died on July 13, 1954. The cause of her death was a pulmonary embolism which is one or more blood clots in the arteries.

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Kahlo was considered one of Mexico's greatest artist who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident. One of her most famous paintings was "The Two Fridas." Like "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird,"  The Two Fridas was painted in response to Kahlo's separation from Rivera. In this piece Kahlo explores 2 sides of herself. On the left, she depicts herself as a broken-hearted woman clad in a traditionally European gown. On the right, her heart is whole, and she is wearing a modern Mexican dress-a style she adopted while married to Rivera.

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Kahlo was born to a German father of Hungarian and a Mexican mother of a Spanish and Native American. She was first married in 1929 to Diego Rivera and later divorced in 1939. She has six sisters and one brother. Kahlo never able to have children due to her terrible accident.

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1) Her work was record- breaking
2) Kahlo has emerged as a feminist icon.
3) She once dreamed of being a doctor
4) A third of her paintings were self-portraits
5) She was born and died in the same house.
5) That house is now a museum.
6) She frequently included the symbolic monkey. In Mexican mythology, monkeys are symbols of lust, but Kahlo portrayed them as tender and protective symbols.
7)  Frida Kahlo's 'Roots' holds the auction record for a Latin American piece of art.
8) The 1943 work sold for US$ 5.6 million in 2006