Abstract:I recommend her to you, not as a husband but as an enthusiastic admirer of her work, acid and tender, hard as steel and delicate and fine as a butterfly's wing, loveable as a beautiful smile, and profound and cruel as the bitterness of life. 1(p229) Diego Rivera to Samuel Lewisohn, 1938RIDA KAHLO CALDERÓN (1907-1954 was born in Coyoacán, a suburb of Mexico City, Mexico, to a Hungarian-German father and Spanish-Mexican Indian mother. As a child, she had polio involving her right leg but recovered sufficiently… Show more
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