Frida Kahlo's Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds

This detailed and visually engaging narrative explores the significant but short-lived meeting in Paris between Frida Kahlo and Mary Reynolds, two prominent figures in the Surrealist movement.
 
In February 1939, during a visit to Paris at the invitation of writer André Breton, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) fell ill and recovered at the residence of American expatriate Mary Reynolds (1891–1950), an innovative bookbinder, collector of Surrealist artist books, and partner of Marcel Duchamp. This volume chronicles the relationship between Kahlo and Reynolds and examines how their friendship continued to impact their artistic work long after it had ended.
 
This volume reveals the profound interaction between Kahlo and Reynolds through their respective artworks, their mutual engagement with Reynolds’s extensive Surrealist library, and letters from Kahlo to her partner, American photographer Nickolas Muray, detailing her Parisian experience. It features Kahlo’s paintings and drawings, Reynolds’s curated book selections, Muray’s photographs of Kahlo, artistic portrayals of Reynolds by Parisian artists, and correspondence between Kahlo and Reynolds that illuminates their pivotal shared experience.