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Fascinating Woman Artist Actress Activist Great Beauty Great Mystery Most spectacular person in Mexico City

Italian Left for San Francisco 1913 Hollywood Disdain for Hollywood Moves to Mexico with photographer husband, Weston

Weston teaches her photography Mexico homes are gathering places Diego and Frida courtship Affair with Diego Known work done in Mexico

1929 Framed Murder of Cuban lover Gunned down on street Scapegoat for Government Repression Slandered in public trial Acquitted Expelled 1930 Goes to Berlin & Soviet Union

Returns to Mexico 1939 Dies 3 years later Lonely & Controversial Heart Failure or ??? Epitath by Pablo Neruda Pure your gentle name, pure your fragile life, bees, shadows, fire, snow, silence and foam, combined with steel and wire and pollen to make up your firm and delicate being.

Found in Rivera Murals “The Abundant Earth” “In the Arsenal” Filmography “The Tiger’s Coat” 1920 “Riding with Death” 1921 “I Can Explain” 1922

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