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Remembering Frida Kahlo
Sixty-five years ago a wonderful communist artist died. PETER FROST tells the amazing life story of Frida Kahlo

ABOUT 10 years ago, trapped in Dublin by those Icelandic volcanoes, I found I had time to visit an exhibition of an artist — Frida Kahlo — I had read about but never actually seen her paintings except in books.

Now at last I could see the actual gem like sparkling works.

Most were small, brightly coloured with frames that made them a bit like atheist religious icons.

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