Frida Kahlo: Portraits 0f an Icon

by Margaret Hooks

From 1926 until her death in 1954, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo created striking, often shocking, images that reflected her turbulent life. One of four daughters born to a Hungarian-Jewish father and a mother of Spanish and Mexican Indian descent, in the Mexico City suburb of Coyoacn, Kahlo did not originally plan to become an artist. During her convalescence from a bus accident in her late teens, Kahlo began to paint with oils. Her pictures, mostly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8475065643
• ISBN13: 9788475065649
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Turner
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.6" x 12.3"