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Dolores Olmedo

Mexican businesswoman

Died when: 93 years 224 days (1123 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Dolores Olmedo

María de los Dolores Olmedo y Patiño Suarez (December 14, 1908 – July 26, 2002;Mexico City) was a Mexican businesswoman, philanthropist and musician, better known for her friendship with the Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera; she appeared in some of his paintings.

Following Rivera's death in 1957, she and Rivera's daughter Guadalupe asked then president Adolfo López Mateos to consider Rivera and José Clemente Orozco's paintings historical monuments.

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