Wed Jul 4, 9:37 PM ET
MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Scores of belongings of Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera will go on exhibit for the first time Friday, after being locked away in boxes for 50 years, a museum said Thursday.
The exhibit includes the first two photographs taken and signed by Kahlo and a never-before-seen painting from Rivera's first impressionist era, said La Casa Azul, Kahlo's home south of Mexico City which was turned into a museum after her death.
The intimate show coincides with the 100th anniversary of Kahlo's birth and 50th anniversary of Rivera's death, said Ricardo Perez Escamilla, who is in charge of the exhibit.
The objects shown are merely "the tip of the iceberg," he said, adding that the locked boxes were opened in 2002 and their contents catalogued since.
Inside were found 2,105 documents, 5,387 photographs, 2,874 magazines and publications, 2,170 books and dozens of drawings and personal objects including letters, clothes and toys.
Perez Escamilla said the boxes were kept sealed for 50 years at Rivera's request.
"One one hand," said the museum official, Kahlo and Rivera "were not interested in disclosing very personal situations that went beyond the moral conventions (of their time) ... but another significant reason was that much of the material was not museum-worthy."
Kahlo (1907-1954), who mixed the real and surreal with daring and frankness in her work, twice married Rivera (1886-1957), the fabled Cubist and muralist, and was a close friend of Russian communist leader Leon Trotsky.
She suffered intense emotional pain inflicted by the philandering Rivera and physical pain after being stricken by polio and injured in a bus crash.
One of photographs that will go on exhibit Friday shows Kahlo holding a toy truck and a doll, illustrating the crippling bus accident she suffered as a young woman that changed her life.
The exhibition, entitled "Treasures of La Caza Azul, Frida and Diego," will run through September 30.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/lifestylemexicoartpaintingkahlorivera;_ylt=An1R4fGNrU7Z8Ym4I5RQmKp.KcMA)
MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Scores of belongings of Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera will go on exhibit for the first time Friday, after being locked away in boxes for 50 years, a museum said Thursday.
The exhibit includes the first two photographs taken and signed by Kahlo and a never-before-seen painting from Rivera's first impressionist era, said La Casa Azul, Kahlo's home south of Mexico City which was turned into a museum after her death.
The intimate show coincides with the 100th anniversary of Kahlo's birth and 50th anniversary of Rivera's death, said Ricardo Perez Escamilla, who is in charge of the exhibit.
The objects shown are merely "the tip of the iceberg," he said, adding that the locked boxes were opened in 2002 and their contents catalogued since.
Inside were found 2,105 documents, 5,387 photographs, 2,874 magazines and publications, 2,170 books and dozens of drawings and personal objects including letters, clothes and toys.
Perez Escamilla said the boxes were kept sealed for 50 years at Rivera's request.
"One one hand," said the museum official, Kahlo and Rivera "were not interested in disclosing very personal situations that went beyond the moral conventions (of their time) ... but another significant reason was that much of the material was not museum-worthy."
Kahlo (1907-1954), who mixed the real and surreal with daring and frankness in her work, twice married Rivera (1886-1957), the fabled Cubist and muralist, and was a close friend of Russian communist leader Leon Trotsky.
She suffered intense emotional pain inflicted by the philandering Rivera and physical pain after being stricken by polio and injured in a bus crash.
One of photographs that will go on exhibit Friday shows Kahlo holding a toy truck and a doll, illustrating the crippling bus accident she suffered as a young woman that changed her life.
The exhibition, entitled "Treasures of La Caza Azul, Frida and Diego," will run through September 30.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/lifestylemexicoartpaintingkahlorivera;_ylt=An1R4fGNrU7Z8Ym4I5RQmKp.KcMA)
