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LESSON 4 · Women Who Shaped Art History

PAUSE TO THINK

What did Kahlo's first big solo show in Mexico require?

A bed on the gallery floor

By her first solo exhibition in Mexico, her health was so poor that doctors forbade her to attend. She came anyway, arriving by ambulance and watching from a four-poster bed set up in the gallery.

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