"Everybody at MoMA knew about Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo that heavy Mexican art, " says the 33-year-old.
The Sotheby's folk guess that it's the last letter Kahlo ever wrote to Rivera.
The beautiful three-winged house is where Kahlo grew up, lived for some time with Rivera and where she died.
BBC: Three days with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Mexico City
Rivera and Kahlo lived in separate areas after they divorced in 1939 and remarried each other the following year.
BBC: Three days with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Mexico City
Through all the correspondence, Kahlo's adoration of Rivera, and her struggle with chronic physical pain, are poignantly clear.
Painting attracted him: in the late 1930s, in Mexico, he had spent his Sunday afternoons with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
Many works of both Kahlo and Rivera are on display here (along with Russian illustrator, Angelina Beloff, with whom Rivera started living in 1911).
BBC: Three days with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Mexico City
As visitors move through the museum, it is the remnants of Kahlo and Rivera's private life that begin to tell their story.
So powerfully was Kahlo drawn to her husband, who was 21 years her senior, that she put up with his many affairs.
Kahlo was very politically active and did not hide her political leanings.
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Frida Kahlo, an early post-modernist who embraced indigenous kitsch, would approve.
It was painted that way because Kahlo and Rivera felt that the bright colors represented Mexican culture better than the original white paint.
On Dec. 13, Sotheby's New York will offer an intimate archive of 50 letters, sketches and photos relating to Mexican painter Frida Kahlo .
Part of the collection is a bed with a mirror attached to it, used by Kahlo in order to create many of her celebrated self-portraits.
Famous artists like Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo do appear in museum shows, but the permanent modern art collections of most major institutions are comprised largely of work by male artists.
Rivera appears as a pudgy child holding hands with Mexico's famous skeleton, La Calavera Catrina, and it's hard to miss the mono-browed Kahlo, dressed distinctively in the indigenous clothing she favoured, standing close behind.
BBC: Three days with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Mexico City
In this note, her handwriting is almost a scrawl, and the blue ink looks pale against the page, as though Kahlo barely had the strength to move her pen across the paper.
Some of Kahlo's most well-known works, such as "Viva la Vida, " a still life of watermelons, are on display in the museum, but it is the personal objects that tell the most interesting stories.
This home-turned-museum, known as La Casa Azul, is where Frida Kahlo was born, began to paint and died, making the house a witness to one of the most important artistic lives in Mexican history.
The couple's love for traditional Mexican art can be seen throughout the house, from the large fireplace designed by Rivera that dominates the first room, resembling a step pyramid like the ones built by the Mayas and Aztecs, to Kahlo's paintings and the couple's collection of smaller sculptures.
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