Frida Kahlo’s self portraits are known all over the world.

The infamous brow, the bright colours, the deep stare.

Married to fellow artist Diego Rivera, Frida once said: “I was born a bitch. I was born a painter.” But Kahlo’s personal possessions – including a heavily decorated prosthetic leg she made herself after her lower right limb was amputated in 1952 – have remained largely unseen.

In 1954, following the death of his famous wife, Rivera locked her possessions in a room Inside the walls of the pair's famous blue house in Mexico City,and asked that it be opened 15 years after his death.

Three years later, in 1957, Diego died. And the room with Frida's possessions in it, including her wooden leg, her paint brushes and some of her favourite clothes, was kept locked. It remained that way for 47 years.

Frida's house.

Photographer Ishiuchi Miyako entered house in 2004 to photograph the unseen collection of the painter's possessions.

Miyako released the book Frida  in 2013 containing the images, and now the photographs are being shown in the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London for the next month.

Describing the exhibition the gallery said:

Take a look through some of the photos:

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Frida Ishiuchi Miyako Rm Editorial Hardcover (via Facebook)

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Frida Ishiuchi Miyako Rm Editorial Hardcover (via Facebook)

See more of the collection here.