Image: Museo Dolores Olmedo, Xochimilco
Museo Dolores Olmedo remembers Frida Kahlo’s ‘The Broken Column’.
Kahlo painted ‘The Broken Column’ in 1944, after undergoing spinal surgery.
The intervention would leave her bedridden and ‘enclosed’ in a metal corset to mitigate the pain she experienced.
Image: Tate Britain, London
Image: Frida Kahlo Museum, Mexico City
Image: Museo Dolores Olmedo, Xochimilco
Image: Museo Dolores Olmedo, Xochimilco
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