Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Mexico, 1933, Photograph by Martin Munkácsi. The Marginalian. Detail.
Every season, show business has their favorite couples: Brangelina (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie), Kimye (Kim Kardashian and Kanye West), Jelena (Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez)… But art history and the contemporary art world are no worse! Who were the most famous artist couples in the art world? Check out if you know them all (even though they don’t have any nicknames)!
Warning: sadly, these stories usually don’t have a happy ending!
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Behind every great man is a great woman. That’s the case with Edward Hopper and his wife. She was a painter who resigned from her own career and devoted her life to supporting Hopper. What was her name?
The Hoppers, 1927.
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