Who helped organize Frida Kahlo’s first solo exhibition in New York?

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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.

The leading Surrealist André Breton was instrumental in organizing Frida Kahlo’s first solo exhibition, which took place in 1938 at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City. Breton also wrote the introduction for the exhibition's brochure, in which he described Kahlo as a self-taught Surrealist.1