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🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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The great Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, died on July 13th 1954, at the age of 47. The art critic, Raquel Tibol, lived in Frida's house during the last year of the artist's life. In 2014 she spoke to Mike Lanchin for Witness History about the pain and torment of Kahlo's final days.
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Photo: Frida Kahlo with her husband Diego Rivera in 1939. (Copyright Getty Images /Bettmann /Corbis)
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0:30.9 | This This is the Witness History Podcast on the BBC World Service with me Mike Lanchin. |
0:40.0 | In July 1954 Mexico's most famous woman artist, Frida Carlo, died at the age of just 47. |
0:49.5 | She had created a body of work different from anything ever made before, much of it based on her own difficult life, blighted by illness and pain. |
0:59.0 | In 2014, I spoke to the art critic Raquel Tibol who knew Frida Carlo during the final year of her life. The image is more is more impression for me |
1:25.0 | I have a much hair. |
1:27.0 | The lasting image I have of Frida is of a woman in bed, |
1:31.0 | with her hair braided with flowers and her face beautifully made up just like in the photographs. |
1:37.0 | But I also remember how she always had one leg stretched out, with her foot full of gang green and a lamp shining over it all the time |
1:45.8 | to keep it warm. |
1:47.8 | It was a terrible sight which filled me with pity. |
1:51.0 | It was in early 1953 that the Argentine journalist Raquel Tibor arrived in Mexico City on the |
1:58.0 | invitation of the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. |
2:01.9 | The idea was for her to help Rivera mount a major cultural event, but |
2:06.2 | immediately she arrived she was drawn into helping care for his critically |
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