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Eight decades after that adulterous and captivating love in the Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo's home as well as a refuge from all her pain and suffering,

: in this year 2022 we are going through

With more sorrow than glory, his

with the communist leader could reach 50 million euros through the work and grace of the communist steamroller.

Tremendous paradox.

That is the figure that, according to experts, would cost the last great find of the Mexican artist, today turned into a

phenomenon , a venerable cultural icon, a planetary superstar who smashes all the records, all the auctions, all the brushstrokes of

.

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It is a violin that Frida gave to the communist leader

, exiled in his house in Coyoacán between 1937 and 1939, painted and dedicated by hand by herself, which has just seen the light and will now be auctioned.

Given the supersonic interest in everything that has to do with the Mexican artist, 50 million to the highest bidder are not unreasonable at all.

And so, as in a wonderful heresy, it

, and that ended with the assassination of the politician at the hands of the Spanish Ramón Mercader.

(A murder, by the way, that continues to be shrouded in morbidity and mystery: according to the official version, Mercader killed Trotsky on Stalin's orders by hitting him on the head with an ice ax, and even

, and was even arrested at first).

"We must bear in mind that Kahlo was not a very prolific artist; she barely painted 143 works, of which 55 are self-portraits," explains Javier Gallego, from Gallego y Sánchez Rollón Asociados and an expert in art and expertise.

"In November 2021,

was sold in New York for 34 million dollars,

. It is a very small canvas, 15 cm by 15 cm. So a hand-painted violin hand, and which also hides such an exciting relationship, can make history".

No one knows how many hands the instrument must have passed before it reached its current owner, who, suspecting that it might be an authentic piece, contacted Gallego in Madrid to have him certify that both the drawings and the dedication were the work of Frida.

: "A man without a country is like an old violin without strings, I hope that very soon he recovers his country and his home, his ideal and his struggle and returns to being the director of world history. Sincerely, Frida Kahlo."

On the reverse, the artist drew two butterflies and, inside a very black sun, the symbol of the hammer and sickle.

and her

line De Ella.

Frida painted some butterflies and the hammer and sickle.EM

Gallego has been in charge of coordinating the

.

Guillermo Pastor Vázquez, the president of the National Association of Calligraphic Experts, has been in charge of verifying the handwriting and signature.

And a Spanish company has confirmed,

, that it was painted in the 1930s and that some of the colors used were only used in Central America.

The result, then, has been conclusive:

and therefore he also gave it to his lover.

It has even been said that that love could have been a revenge after discovering the affair of Diego Rivera, her then-husband, with Frida's own sister.

Well, despite the fact that the marriage had an open relationship -and stormy to a high degree-, that had to overcome all the red lines;

, in which the marriage militated with much blood, much sweat and many tears.

Now that

, the violin is a piece of

for the big auction houses, where it will probably end up up for auction.

But Gallego has no doubt that there will be a stir given the interest aroused by everything that has to do with Frida Kahlo: "

, but as soon as its existence is known, many girlfriends will come out. them, the Mexican government, which can claim why it has left the country, how it came into the hands of whoever has arrived... The current owner has the property titles in his possession, but there will be controversy, that's for sure."

A controversy that

, because not even the last wish she left written in her diary, that of resting at last,

: "I hope for a happy exit and I hope never to return," she longed for.

But everything indicates that there will be noise (and music) for a while.

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