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  1. Dec 4, 2020 · Chavela, who was 12 years younger than Frida, spoke on several occasions about the love she had for Kahlo when her musical career began to take off, while she was “a child.” And thanks to recently discovered love letters we have a new perspective on this little known relationship.

  2. Feb 19, 2018 · Both Vargas, a prominent musician, and Kahlo, a renowned painter, are best known for their contributions to the arts in Latin America. In the mid-1940s, Kahlo was rumored to have had an affair with Vargas while married to muralist Diego Rivera. Their alleged relationship, while never confirmed, protested the social code of Mexico at the time.

  3. Nov 25, 2022 · The romance between Frida Kahlo and Chavela Vargas blazed with a fervent intensity, cursed to be fleeting and short-lived, to burn out like a falling star in the sultry Mexican night. For all the turmoil in Kahlo and Rivera’s marriage, Frida would end up standing by her husband, refusing to fight to save the love she shared with the young ...

  4. Vargas herself, as a young woman, was alleged to have had an affair with Frida Kahlo during Kahlo's marriage to muralist Diego Rivera. From 1988 to 1993, she was in a relationship with her lawyer Alicia Elena Pérez Duarte. Gender performance & masculinity

  5. Aug 17, 2012 · “I live only for you and Diego,” Frida Kahlo told her. She had an affair with the magnate and collector Dolores Olmedo; rumor linked her to fellow-divas Lola Beltrán and María Félix; and then,...

    • Leon Trotsky
    • Georgia O’Keeffe
    • Josephine Baker
    • Nickolas Muray
    • Dolores Del Rio
    • Isamu Noguchi
    • Paulette Goddard
    • Tina Modotti
    • Chavela Vargas

    In January 1937, Kahlo greeted Leon Trotskyand his wife when they arrived in Mexico seeking political asylum. Rivera and Kahlo also gave the Trotskys a place to live: Casa Azul, Kahlo's childhood home. As the exiles settled in, Kahlo and Trotsky began an affair. One vengeful impetus on Kahlo's part may have been Rivera's affair with her sister. But...

    Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffemet in the early 1930s in the United States (Kahlo had traveled there to support Rivera). The two women had many things in common — they were both female artists trying to make their mark while married to older men (O'Keeffe's husband was photographer Alfred Stieglitz) whose reputations, at the time, overshadowed theirs. A...

    Rumors of an affair between Parisian nightclub sensation Josephine Bakerand Kahlo have been around for years. Baker took both male and female lovers during her lifetime… so Kahlo might very well be among them. Kahlo and Baker were both in Paris in 1939, Baker performing and Kahlo for a showing of her work. According to the 2002 movie Frida, the two...

    Nickolas Muray and Frida Kahlo" tml-render-layout="inline"> Hungarian-American photographer Nickolas Muray had a social circle that included Martha Graham, Langston Hughes and Eugene O’Neill, was an Olympic fencer (winning bronze in 1932) and found success in commercial and portrait photography. Muray took wonderful portraits of Kahlo, includi...

    Actress Dolores del Rio, one of the first Latin American stars in Hollywood, was friends with both Kahlo and Rivera. Though the actress has been counted among Rivera's lovers, this needn't have prevented her from getting close to Kahlo as well — the artist had a history of befriending and charming her husband's girlfriends. In 1939, Kahlo presented...

    Kahlo and Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi became lovers in the mid-1930s after Noguchi traveled to Mexico to work on a relief mural. Their feelings were intense — Noguchi once wrote to her, "You are to me every love thought." But, Rivera continued to be jealous of his wife's male companions. This meant Kahlo and Noguchi had trouble success...

    Actress Paulette Goddard, whose husbands included Charlie Chaplin, was a star of movies like Modern Times (1936) and The Diary of a Chambermaid(1946). Like Dolores del Rio, she's been romantically linked to Rivera — and, according to some rumors, to Kahlo as well. In August 1940, Trotsky was murdered. He and Rivera had fallen out, possibly because ...

    Like many other women, photographer Tina Modotti was romantically linked to Rivera. Modotti may also have helped the relationship between Rivera and Kahlo, as Kahlo likely re-encountered Rivera at one of Modotti's parties. And, as with several of her husband's lovers, Kahlo managed to maintain a friendship with Modotti. A love story between Modotti...

    Singer Chavela Vargas was born in Costa Rica but came to Mexico in the 1930s as a teenager. There, dressed as a man, she found fame performing traditional rancheras. After Vargas reached her 80s she publicly acknowledged her sexual identity as a lesbian and began talking about her long-ago love affair with Kahlo. According to Vargas, after meeting ...

  6. www.makingqueerhistory.com › articles › 2020/7/18Chavela Vargas

    Jul 18, 2020 · One notable connection she made was with Frida Kahlo, another queer woman who she entered a relationship with. But she was not a woman to be tied down and had many relationships of varying lengths with women, including reportedly a one night stand with Ava Gardner after Elizabeth Taylor’s wedding.

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