April 13, 1953
Advised by her doctors that she is too ill to attend the opening reception of her first solo show in Mexico, and that she needs to rest, Frida Kahlo transports her bed to the gallery and attends from there. She greets visitors from her four poster bed, situated in the middle of the Galeria Arte Contemporaneo.
To Time magazine reporters she declares:
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”