Which actor bought four Frida Kahlo paintings in 1938?

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Frida Kahlo stands at an easel, holding a paintbrush and working on a portrait of a woman in a white dress, looking toward the camera. — Frida Kahlo Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painting a portrait of Jean Wight in 1931; the work depicts the wife of artist Clifford Wight, who assisted Diego Rivera, Kahlo's husband, when he was painting a number of murals throughout the United States.

In 1938, the actor and art collector Edward G. Robinson purchased four paintings by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. This acquisition occurred during the same year that Kahlo held her first solo exhibition at the gallery of Julien Levy in New York City.1