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This week we're bringing you the stories of some of the most famous artists of the 20th century.

Today it's the turn of the great Mexican female artist Frida Carlo. In 2014 Mike Lanchen spoke to the late

Rakel Tibol, an art critic who knew Carlo during the final year of her life. The lasting image I have of freedomida is of a woman in bed with her hair braided with flowers and her face beautifully made up just like in the photographs.

But I also remember how she always had one leg stretched out with her foot full of gang green and a lamp shining over it all the time to keep it warm.

It was in early

in early 1953 that the Argentine journalist Raquel Tibor arrived in Mexico City

on the invitation of the famous Mexican muralist

Diego Rivera. The idea was for her to help Rivera mount a major cultural event,

but immediately she arrived she was drawn into helping care for his critically ill wife,

Frida Carlo.

The 46 year old Carlo, a prolific painter and dedicated socialist, was by then practically bedridden.

She'd suffered polio as a child and then a near fatal bus accident as a teenager, which had left her with horrific injuries including

a broken spine and a pierced abdomen and uterus.

She'd spent most of her adult life in terrible pain.

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