Frida Kahlo Facts | Facts about Frida Kahlos

How did a bus accident change Frida Kahlo's life?

Frida Kahlo began painting seriously while recovering from a bus accident she was in at age 18.

About 55 of Frida Kahlo's roughly 140 paintings are self-portraits.

Frida Kahlo married muralist Diego Rivera twice.

Frida Kahlo was the first 20th-century Mexican artist to have a work bought by the Louvre, in 1939.

Frida Kahlo's home, La Casa Azul, or the Blue House, is now a museum in Mexico City.

Frida Kahlo had polio as a child.

Frida Kahlo painted while bedridden using a mirror mounted above her bed.

Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 but claimed 1910 so her birth year would match the start of the Mexican Revolution.

Frida Kahlo emphasized her unibrow in her self-portraits.

Frida Kahlo's "Diego y yo" sold for about $34.9 million in 2021, a record for a Latin American artist at the time.