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Frida's Second Coming

January 12, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Another batch of Frida Kahlo works appears in Mexico, according to the Independent:

A journalist claims she was offered the “newly discovered” works while researching a story about the original batch of alleged fakes. “In a shop in the Plaza del Angel antiques market there is a trunk painted by Rivera and Kahlo in which there are hundreds of pieces: photographs, a dress, more painted boxes, a Virgin of Guadalupe with a signed Kahlo self-portrait behind. The dealer wants three million pesos (less than £200,000) for it,” Galia Garcia Palafox wrote in a Columbian magazine.

She then asked the dealer where the works had come from. “The majority were works Frida gave her photographer and that I have kept for years,” was the reply.

Ms Garcia Palafox said: “The Kahlo pieces are different than the other ones [involved in the court case]. I was offered them by an antiquarian who had them in his antique shop.”

Kahlo Fakes Flood into Market (Independent)

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