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The unbreakable female artist
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Frida Kahlo, Her life, Her Work, Her Home
Francisco De La Mora, SelfMadeHero, £15.99
FRIDA KAHLO was an extraordinary woman in that, against all odds, she became an internationally acclaimed female artist in a male-dominated art world.
Born in Mexico in 1907, she contracted polio at the age of six, recovered, but was left with one leg shorter than the other. Encouraged by her father, she played football and took up wrestling — unusual activities at that time for a young woman.
Later, aged 18, she was involved in a terrible bus accident resulting in a fractured spine and pelvis which were life-long injuries.
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