Source: WTL photograph taken at the Casa Azul in Coyoacán.
Photograph: Here is a close-up of the previous image. The purpose of this image is to dilate briefly on her death and her legacy.
Comments: Just before she died in 1954, she wrote this now-famous phrase in her diary: "I hope my exit is joyful, and I hope never to return: Frida". It is not known precisely what the cause of her death was, but it certainly known that she suffered immensely during the last year of her life when she had her right leg amputated due to gangrene and when she had a case of bronchial pneumonia. Be it noted that Diego Rivera , who outlived her by three years, reported that the most tragic day of his life was the day Frida died and that his love for her was the best part of his life. Her ashes are contained in a pre-contact urn in this house. From the 1980s to the present Mexico has seen a new humanities movement called neomexicanismo (Neo-Mexicanism). Frida Kahlo came out from under the shadow of the giant humanities figure of her husband as a result of this movement. A Mexican movie titled Frida, naturaleza viva was made about her in 1983, and another one, Frida, with the Mexican actress Salma Hayek was made in 2002. In fact, Frida Kahlo's paintings and her life story have been and remain immensely influential throughout the world. One of the most important biographies in English about her is by the art historian Hayden Herrera, Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo (2002) and in Spanish there is Raquel Tibol's Frida Kahlo, una vida abierta (translated in 1993 as Frida Kahlo: an Open Life).