The other has the details of when the couple remarried: in San Francisco, California, on Dec. 8, 1940, at 11 o’clock.
Kahlo had the ability to create not only memorable images, but also memorable words, Ms. Labarthe said. “Frida has wonderful phrases, and I think this one, ‘The hours were broken,’ is one of them,” she said.
Ms. Labarthe said that of the approximately 150 oils that Kahlo painted, she knew of only one that depicted a clock: a 1929 self-portrait, “El Tiempo Vuela,” or “Time Flies.” But clocks were included in some of the artist’s drawings, she noted.
Rivera turned one of those drawings into a stone mosaic mural, decorating the underside of the roof that overhangs a terrace where they often entertained. The clock face is in the center — part of an eye — and around it are a yin-yang symbol, a sun and the names Frida and Diego.
And Kahlo, who was a prolific letter writer and diarist, often wrote about the subject of time. “Nothing is absolute,” she once wrote in her diary. “Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
Her sense that time was fleeting was not surprising, given the physical suffering Kahlo endured for most of her 47 years; a bus she was riding at age 18 was hit by a trolley car, leaving her with numerous injuries.
“Frida has, in many of her phrases, this intensity of living, how each minute for her is a possibility to live,” Ms. Labarthe said.
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