The image has been doctored from a photo of American pop star Madonna
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- Published on November 20, 2019 at 10:00
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- By AFP Australia
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The image was published in this Facebook post on October 15. It has been shared more than 4,000 times.
Below is a screenshot of the misleading Facebook post:
The same image was also published on Facebook here, here, here, and here.
The claim is false; the image has been doctored from a photo of American pop star Madonna.
A reverse image search on Yandex of the doctored image found it was manipulated from an original portrait of Madonna, which was photographed in 1992 by Steven Meisel for Vogue.
The photograph was included in a feature spread on the popstar that was published in the magazine's October 1992 edition. A copy of the article can be viewed here on the fan website All About Madonna.
Below is a comparison between the manipulated image and the photo of Madonna:
The image of Kahlo's face corresponds with a 1931 portrait of her taken by American photographer Imogen Cunningham published here.
Below is a screenshot of the image with the portrait highlighted in red by AFP:
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