Frida Kahlo Museum has denied lending clothes and jewelry to Madonna during a visit by the American singer to the Mexico.
The controversy erupted after Madonna, who gave several concerts in Mexico in April, posted a picture of herself wearing a shawl and embroidered dress during a visit to what she said was Kahlo's "family home."
"A beautiful souvenir -- visiting the family home of my eternal muse," she said in a post on Instagram. "For me it was magical to try on her clothes and jewelry, to read her journals and letters and to look at photos I'd never seen before," Madonna added.
The image provoked a mixture of reactions, the Frida Kahlo Museum, also known as the Casa Azul, said in a press release that the singer was unable to personally visit its collection in the house where the surrealist painter -- who died in 1954 at the age of 47 -- lived for 36 years.
"We want to clarify that the clothes, photos and objects that Madonna published on her different social media sites do not belong to the Casa Azul collection," it said.
The clothing and jewelry in its collection were "subject to strict conservation measures" and "not loaned for personal use," added the museum.
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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