lunes 24 de agosto de 2009

Lost archive' is a fake


Frida Kahlo scholars say discovery of 'astonishing lost archive' is a fake
Calls for Mexico to step in over new book cataloguing unknown collection of works and letters claimed to be by the artist

More than half a century after her death, the Mexican surrealist who had Leon Trotsky and Josephine Baker as lovers and Diego Rivera as her husband, soulmate and tormenter-in-chief, is at the centre of a new controversy.
Fittingly for an artist who insisted, "I paint my own reality", the latest row over
Frida Kahlo revolves around truth and authenticity.