Frida Kahlo’s Love Letters is a new fascinating book written by Suzanne Barbezat, based in Mexico who in her work, explores culture, travel and food. This brilliant book is published by Frances Lincoln and features 50 letters by the iconic Mexican artist throughout her lifetime alongside images and reproductions as facsimile of the letters, highlighting emotions and tragic moments. Chronological elements also help understand the crucial meetings of her life.

Beyond her remarkable paintings, Frida Kahlo was also a prolific writer, expressing her thoughts, emotions, and struggles through deeply personal letters, diaries, and essays. Her writings offer a raw and intimate glimpse into her inner world, revealing her resilience, passion, and complex relationship with love, identity, and pain.

“It was clear that, besides being a great painter capable of evoking strong responses with her art, she was also a gifted writer who could stir deep emotions with her words. She had the ability to draw others in, and, even now, we are still captivated and ever curious to learn more about her. The basic facts of Frida’s life are well known and often repeated: how contracting polio as a child led to her right leg remaining shorter and thinner than her left; the tram accident as a teenager that left her severely injured; her turbulent marriage to the muralist Diego Rivera, along with their divorce and re-marriage a year later; and her lifelong health issues that precipitated her untimely death at the age of 47. But her letters offer us a window into her thoughts and emotions, her character and the people she loved.” Suzanne writes in the introduction of this new amazing title.

The letters compiled here showcase the depth of Frida’s love, the intricacy of her inner world, and the lasting strength of her artistic spirit. Her striking paintings and motifs are also illustrated in the book.

Through her correspondence with her husband for life Diego Rivera, Nikolas Murray and Georgia O’Keeffe among others, she invites readers into her dynamic mind and creative soul. On page 116, to fellow painter and Feminist O’Keeffe, she writes: “I have been painting a little too and that helped. I thought of you a lot and never forget your wonderful hands and the colour of your eyes. I will see you soon. I am sure that in New York I will be much happier. If you still in the hospital when I come back I will bring you flowers, but it is so difficult to find the ones I would like for you. I would be so happy if you could write me even two words. I like you very much Georgia.
Frieda”

Suzanne Barbezat is also a teacher, a tour guide and the author of the bestselling Frida Kahlo at Home, released in 2016. This new book is a must-have for all Frida Kahlo fan and other artists.