My friends at the Princeton Architectural Press sent me Barbara Levine's Finding Frida Kahlo
. The book presents, for the first time in print, an astonishing lost archive thought to be of one of the 20th century's most revered artists. Hidden from view for over half a century, this richly illustrated, intimate portrait overflows with fascinating details about Kahlo's romances, friendships, and business affairs, during a a three-decade period, beginning in the 1920s when she was a teenager and ending just before she died in 1954.
Full of ardent desires, seething fury, and outrageous humor, the book is a rare glimpse into an exuberant and troubled existence.
It seems inconceivable that after decade of exhibitions, auctions, books, and movies, unpublished Frida Kahlo artwork could still be found anywhere much less a shop in a converted textile factory. Levine found the archive in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Levine picked up one of the ten airmail letters she found inside a suitcase, inscribed with the words, "personal archive of Frida K. and personal archive of my private life."
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