When Frida Kahlo was 18 years old, she seemed on the verge of claiming the life she’d imagined. The daughter of a German artist father and a Mexican mother, Kahlo had wanted to be a doctor since she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Frida on White Bench, New York,” a 1939 photograph by Nickolas Muray. The three-part documentary "Becoming Frida Kahlo" premieres ...

There are few women who have used fashion and image as powerfully as Frida Kahlo. A boundary-smashing, progressive, feminist figurehead, the Mexican artist was one of the first to create her own ...

We recognize her from her eyebrows alone. Frida Kahlo is one of a handful of artists who have truly gained icon status, remembered not only for her searing body of work but also for her enduring image ...

Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is remembered today for her personal struggle and extraordinary life story as much as for her vibrant and intimate artwork. Kahlo was plagued by illness since youth and a ...

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction. The painting of Kahlo asleep in a ...

Frida Kahlo painted The Dream (The Bed) in 1940 during a period of “intense personal trauma and creative renewal,” according to Sotheby's. Sotheby's When a self-portrait by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo ...

The price is 107,155 percent more than the $51,000 it last sold for in 1980. When Frida Kahlo’s 1940 El sueño (La cama) last changed hands, at Sotheby’s in New York in 1980, the buyer paid $51,000, ...