Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907. While these images of a prosthetic leg from our collection might be an unusual choice to remember the artist, this artificial limb was from
![See Frida Kahlo's Corsets, Prosthetics, Cosmetics—and Art—From the Brooklyn Museum's New Blockbuster on the Artist's Life and Work See Frida Kahlo's Corsets, Prosthetics, Cosmetics—and Art—From the Brooklyn Museum's New Blockbuster on the Artist's Life and Work](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2019/02/Muray-Frida-in-blue-blouse.jpg)
See Frida Kahlo's Corsets, Prosthetics, Cosmetics—and Art—From the Brooklyn Museum's New Blockbuster on the Artist's Life and Work
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![Frida Kahlo's prosthetic leg will go on show at the V&A as part of major new exhibition | London Evening Standard | Evening Standard Frida Kahlo's prosthetic leg will go on show at the V&A as part of major new exhibition | London Evening Standard | Evening Standard](https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/03/09/14/frida-kahlo-on-a-bench-carbon-print-1938-photo-by-nickolas-muray-r-the-jacques-and-natasha-gelman-collection-of-20th-century-mexican-art-and-the-vergenickolas-muray-photo-archives.jpg?width=968)
Frida Kahlo's prosthetic leg will go on show at the V&A as part of major new exhibition | London Evening Standard | Evening Standard
![What Katie Did on X: "A brightly decorated prosthetic leg from the V&A Museum's Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self exhibition. Kahlo had her right leg amputated in 1953, the year before she What Katie Did on X: "A brightly decorated prosthetic leg from the V&A Museum's Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self exhibition. Kahlo had her right leg amputated in 1953, the year before she](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dft0esSX0AAotCp.jpg)
What Katie Did on X: "A brightly decorated prosthetic leg from the V&A Museum's Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self exhibition. Kahlo had her right leg amputated in 1953, the year before she
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