Shots, lovers and the first of many humiliations: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's wedding

Upon returning to Mexico at the end of 33, Diego and Frida settled in the house of San Ángel, actually two houses joined by a bridge designed by the architect Juan O'Gorman.The biggest, pink house, belonged to Diego, and the blue to Frida, which had in her hand to close the access of the bridge that united them when I wanted.This picturesque detail could be a recognition of its mutual independence, but also a way to get away in a relationship that was already very deteriorated.At that time, Diego painted Cristina Kahlo, her wife's younger sister, whom after having two children her husband had abandoned her.Gerry Souter writes: "Diego began - or possibly intensified - a destructive love relationship with Cristina".Frida learned, and realized that this was born long ago, before they got married, when he visited her in the Blue House.

The blow of discovering that this time her husband put her horns with her sister was too much for her.In a dramatic gesture, Diego's hair was cut so much, he suffered an abortion of a 3 -month fetus, they had to remove the appendix and reopened and infected the wounds of the foot.But the relationship was complicated, and the attempted breakdown did not go far.Although he moved to number 432 of Insurgentes Avenue, he kept seeing his husband or defending his character changes and offenses.In addition, Frida was not independent in the economic, he dealt with his medical expenses and maintenance, which were not few.In fact, it was Diego who bought a game of furniture lined with red leather ... and exactly the same to Cristina, which he did not stop seeing or portraying in a mural of the National, blonde and exuberant palace.Sample of the shock that Frida suffered at that stage is that she stopped painting almost complete.

Following what happened - "there have been two accidents in my life: that of the tram and Diego," she would say - Frida began to drink much more than I already did.He also had his own romances with men and women, and although Diego never cared about his wife's lesbian relations - the rumors bind her with Georgia O'Keeffe, Josephine Baker and Dolores del Río -, he did not go well that he lied with others mens.The sculptor Isamu Nogushi, with whom Frida lay down when they had not yet been officially reconciled after the Affaire with Cristina, Diego threatened him very quiet and cold by assuring him that in his gun he had a bullet with his name.Nor did he carry his intermittent relationship with photographer Nickolas Muray well.It was obvious that they were hobbies and they would be together again.In the 36.