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Discovery of ‘lost’ Frida Kahlo archive causes Mexican stand-off in art world

In life, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was as famous for her tumultuous bisexual relationships as her surreal self-portraits.

Five decades after her death, she is at the centre of a new controversy as bizarre and gripping as any of the scandals that define her in the popular imagination.