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Frida Kahlo died #OnThisDay in 1954, aged 47, in Coyoacán, Mexico.
Her last drawing was a black angel. It was accompanied by the last words she wrote, "I joyfully await the exit – and I hope never to return – Frida"
Her last drawing was a black angel. It was accompanied by the last words she wrote, "I joyfully await the exit – and I hope never to return – Frida"
The official cause of death was pulmonary embolism, although no autopsy was performed. The nurse, who counted Kahlo's painkillers to monitor her drug use, stated that she had taken an overdose the night she died.
Kahlo's death mask on her bed in La Casa Azul.
