BIOGRAFICO KAHLO

Many people know that Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist, a feminist icon who lived in the famous Blue House and whose work includes The Two Fridas. What, perhaps, they don’t know is that 55 of her 143 artworks are self-portraits; that her painting Roots holds the record for a Latin American artwork, having sold for $5.6 million in 2006; that she married her husband twice; or that she arrived for her first solo exhibition in an ambulance. This book casts a modern eye over her life and work, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures.

Sophie Collins has worked in publishing for over thirty years. She has also lectured for over a decade on a range of subjects in art history at Sothebys Institute of Art, The Open University, the University of Kent, Birmingham University and Birkbeck College, London.