Purple Magazine
— F/W 2012 issue 18
Frida & Trotsky reportage
Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo’s eccentric blue house in Mexico City, was the backdrop for countless intrigues. Between these indigo walls, the mexican painter Kahlo was born, recovered from a near-fatal car accident, married and lived with Diego Rivera, conducted her short-lived affair with Leon Trotsky. We visited Casa Azul and its lush gardens, as well as Trotsky’s house around the corner, where the Russian revolutionary spent his final days and was murdered.
photography by ANNABEL MEHRAN
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Signs on the street near from Frida Kahlo and Leon Trostky’s houses in the neighborhood of Coyoacán, Mexico City.
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Leon Trostky’s tomb in the garden of his house.
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Frida Kahlo’s house and garden.
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Frida Kahlo’s house and garden.
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A watermelon painting by Frida Kahlo hanging in her house.
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Frida Kahlo’s house and garden.
