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Magda Pach, wife of writer and artist Walter Pach, played a vital role in supporting Mexican art in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. This painting became her most famous painting due to her iconic model and friend, Frida Kahlo. Since the late 1970s, Frida Kahlo has gained recognition as a leading practitioner of twentieth-century portraiture. The Mexican artist Diego Rivera, an early supporter of Kahlo's work, married her in 1929. Kahlo's intimate and emotionally charged works, in contrast to Rivera's large-scale murals, were influenced by her health challenges following a streetcar accident at eighteen. Through poignant self-portraits, she conveyed both physical and emotional pain, embodying a politically engaged, modern woman with roots in Mexico's indigenous traditions. Kahlo's focus on personal experience and identity as valid artistic subjects has made her a cultural icon, particularly for feminists, the LGBTQ+ community, and U.S. Latinos.