Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño  
# Friday, February 06, 2009

Art collector and philanthropist Dolores Olmedo left her former home, the grand Hacienda La Noria, as a museum featuring the works of her friend Diego Rivera.


At least 137 of his works are displayed here, including his portrait of Olmedo, 25 paintings of Frida Kahlo, and 37 creations of Angelina Beloff (Rivera's first wife), many of them drawings and engravings. Among the notable Kahlo works here is her famed The Broken Column, which is considered the artistic embodiment of her physical suffering, the result of a trolley accident that pierced her spine when she was young.





Besides the paintings, there are fine pre-Hispanic pieces on display, colonial furniture and other hacienda artifacts, and a collection of folk art. An excellent gift shop and a cafeteria are on the premises. Olmedo was the executor of both the Rivera and Kahlo estates, a close friend and former lover of Diego's, and a rival to Frida. Olmedo died in 2002, recognized as one of the most astute collectors of contemporary Mexican art.

For more on the museum read:

Outside Mexico City, The House That Art Built
By Lisa Rein
Washington Post Staff Writer





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