Frida Kahlo · every age

What was Frida Kahlo doing at 31?

Started painting at 18, flat on her back after a bus crash

1. Nov 1938

   First solo show, at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York

   Arranged after Andre Breton championed her. A success.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org
2. Mar 1939

   Paris exhibition; the Louvre buys The Frame

   The first work by a Mexican artist in the Louvre's collection.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

Portrait: Photo: Guillermo Kahlo (1932), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source