Today, Frida Kahlo is a global icon of the emancipated woman artist, celebrated for her political and social views, her extravagant personal style, and above all her breathtaking works of art. Her marriage to Diego Rivera in 1929, her exhibitions in Paris, and her friendship with Andre Breton - captured by the most famous photographers of the time - also made Frida Khalo very famous during her own lifetime. Her art, with its unique and immediately recognizable character, draws on elements of Mexican folk art, pre-Columbian culture and Surrealism.

With over 100 works from Frida Kahlo's groundbreaking oeuvre, this volume is an ideal introduction to the work of this painter. Roxana Velasquez, a leading international authority on Kahlo, guides us through the artist's life and work with a fresh and varied look at Kahlo's captivating but rarely shown paintings as well as the well-known "masterpieces."