Frida Kahlo: Artist and Lover

Currently, a painting by Frida Kahlo holds the record for being the most expensive one sold by a Latin American artist. It’s the painting Roots for which someone paid more than $5 million dollars in 2006. Kahlo was also the first Mexican artist to sell a painting to the Louvre museum. André Bretón, the father of surrealism, was one of Frida’s great admirers. He claimed her art was surreal. However, Frida herself disliked that classification. She said she painted her life, not her dreams. For this reason, she claimed her work wasn’t surreal. Nevertheless, when Bretón visited her in Mexico,…