My Boutique is Dedicated to Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Mexican Painter.

From 1926 until her death, the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo created striking, often shocking, images that reflected her turbulent life. Kahlo was one of four daughters born to a Hungarian-Jewish father and a mother of Spanish and Mexican Indian descent in the Mexico City suburb of Coyoacin.

Her pictures, mostly self-portraits and still lifes, were deliberately naive, filled with brights colors and flattened forms of the Mexican folk art she loved.

At 21, Kahlo fell in love with the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.

Kahlo enjoyed considerable success during the 1940s, but her reputation soared posthumously, beginning in the 1980s with the publication of numerous books about her work by feminist art historians and others. In the last two decades an explosion of Kahlo-inspired films, plays, calendars and jewelry has transformed the artist into a veritable cult figure.

Frida has been described as a one of history's grand divas- a tequila-slamming, dirty joke-telling smoker, bi-sexual that hobled about her bohemian barrio in lavish indigenous dress and threw festive dinner parties for the likes of Leon Trotsky, poet Pablo Neruda, Nelson Rockefeller, and her on-again/off-again husband Diego Rivera.

Today, more than half a century after her death, her paintings are worth more money than any other female artist.

She may be gone now, but her legacy will live on forever... VIVA LA FRIDA!