Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

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The Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño, which possesses the largest collection of paintings by Diego Rivera, is the former home of Dolores Olmedo Patiño y Suárez, a Mexican businesswoman, philanthropist and musician. She is best known for her friendship with Mexican painters, Frida Kahlo and Frida's husband, Diego Rivera. Dolores was the subject of several of Diego's paintings.

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

In 1962, Dolores acquired a property in La Noria in the South of Mexico City, that later became the Museum in 1994. With the donation of her entire collection of art including the pre-Hispanic, colonial, popular, modern and contemporary art, as well as her home furnishings, the Museum hosts the largest collection of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Angelina Beloff works and shows what life was like for the wealthy in Mexico. Upon her death in 2002, Dolores left funds for the care of the Museum, which is now open to the public.

The five building complex contains more than one hundred fifty works of art, including many by Rivera and Kahlo (including some of Frida's scripts and drawings), close to 6,000 pre-Hispanic figurines and sculptures. In addition, the gardens are home to many different animals, such as geese, ducks, Xoloitzcuintles (a breed of large dog native to Mexico) and Indian peacocks. Recently, formerly private rooms have been added to the Museum, where many of the original decorations of the house are kept, like ivory, porcelain and works of art.