by Jan Lipes   Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), famed Mexican artist, disappeared from the mainstream art world for almost 30 years after her death.  Great women artists were as hard to find as hen’s teeth and 25 years ago, there was no Mexican art market, male or female, apart from the great mural. . .

    On April 19, 1888, an artist wrote in a letter to a colleague, “There are so many people, especially among our pals, who imagine that words are nothing.  On the contrary, don’t you think, it’s as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint a thing.  There’s the art of lines and . . .