The Personal Belongings of Frida Kahlo Revealed In New Photo Exhibition

When Frida Kahlo died in July of 1954, her husband and fellow painter Diego Rivera secreted hundreds of her personal belongings in a small bathroom within the home where she had been born forty-seven years before and where they had lived side by side in her final years. Nicknamed The Blue House, the homestead would soon become the Frida Kahlo Museum, but Rivera left directions that the bathroom remain shuttered to the outside world until at least fifteen years after his own death. It wasn’t until 2004, fifty years after it was shut, that the bathroom doors were finally opened to reveal its contents.