Expelled from the Politburo, then the Communist Party ... You’ll be richly rewarded. Frida Kahlo, “Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky” (1937), oil on Masonite, 30 x 24 in.

Political Frida was the erudite friend of academics, artists and intellectuals, a Communist so passionate she changed her birthdate to chime with the start of the Mexican Revolution.

Communist politician Leon Trotsky, entertainer Josephine Baker, Cuban spy Teresa Proenza, photographer Tina Modotti, and Frida's husband, painter and muralist Diego Rivera. Some are physically ...

70 years on from the death of Frida Kahlo, Carla Passino takes a look at the work ... for the Louvre (now at the Musée National d’Art Moderne) 5. A staunch Communist, she became especially keen to ...