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On The Frida Kahlo Trail (Mexico City)

 

 

 

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The street sign to the Kahlo and Trotsky homes

Frida's house (Casa Azul), photographed from the garden by Dalila Campuzano Sanchez.

Trotsky

Front door to the Trotsky home inside a walled compound

The hallway in Trotsky home

Trotsky's bath

The rest of the Trotsky bathroom

Trotsky's bed

Trotsky's desk

An entry in the museum guest book: "long live the revolution."

The Trotsky kitchen

Mirror in Trotsky home

Trotsky's radio

The stairwell mural at the Palacio Nacional

Rivera's revolution mural in the main stairway of the Placio Nacional

Close-up on the Kahlo sisters, Frida (with the hammer and sickle pendant) and Cristina

Close-up on the hammer & sickel pendant around Frida's neck

Another section of the revolution mural

Mural with Frida as model for Indian princess

Another large mural in the staircase

Rivera's signature on the a stairway mural

The 'Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda' mural

Close-up on center figures the "Dream on..." mural: Diego Rivera (as a child), with his future wife, Frida Kahlo, standing behind him.

Another close-up: on the Diego & Frida subjects

A sketch of Frida-in-the-wheelchair

Diego photographed next to Frida-in-the-wheelchair

The entire mural in which Frida appears in a wheelchair. This mural is in China.

The opera house interior, facing a Rivera mural

Trotsky and his buddies depicted in the Opera house mural

A painting of Frida by a friend. On exhibit at the Opera house museum.

       

   

© 2005 R. Abileah

Last updated February 27, 2008