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...The exhibition Modern Couples at the Barbican museum currently explores artist pairings, including Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin (until January 27)....
...It’s not such a new phenomenon — backstories have arguably boosted the market for several artists over the years, including Vincent van Gogh and Frida Kahlo, though they didn’t start out with a savvy marketing...
...The brightly coloured embroidered blouses and skirts, immortalised by Frida Kahlo, are still daily attire. But it is also home to some of Mexico’s poorest communities....
...Striking works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, one of art history’s most famous couples, made high prices at last week’s otherwise patchy Latin American art auctions in New York....
...Kahlo, Fernando Botero and Armando Reverón....
...Admirers included Mae West, Bette Davis, George Gershwin, Leon Trotsky, Errol Flynn, Orson Welles and Frida Kahlo....
...The actress-turned-model who earned Oscar, Golden Globe and Bafta nominations for her portrayal of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo in the 2002 film Frida, thinks the film industry is lagging behind fashion in...
...Isabella I, Queen of Castille, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Sheryl Sandberg....
...It will run until November 1 and is an unmissable tribute to the role of flowers and plants in the art of Frida Kahlo....
...If James Carpenter, responsible for the image renovation of Gucci’s stores under creative director Frida Giannini, were to sit front and centre at Gucci, it wouldn’t cause a stir....
...Kahlo and Diego Rivera....
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...With heavy adornment layered on the lightest tulle and chiffon, the pieces reflected a coherent thought process that began with Frida Kahlo and ended in three-dimensional lace that articulated the body,...
...The design of watches and jewellery now falls to Frida Giannini, the head of Gucci, so watches are born of the same source as handbags, halter tops and high heels....
...In May last year, Frida Kahlo’s “Roots” set the record for the highest price for a Latin American artist at an auction, selling for $5.6m to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby’s....
...Later, on May 24, Sotheby’s expects to set a new record of around $7m for a Frida Kahlo painting, a 1943 portrait symbolising her rediscovered love for her husband andfellow artist Diego Rivera....
...These include higher research spending, higher general investment spending, pensions and health reform, and lower than expected growth....
...Who: FRIDA GIANNINI Why: Creative director, Gucci accessories The Inside Track One of those responsible for the Baguette phenomenon of the mid- 1990s - she reportedly designed up to 500 versions in the...
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