The French-Mexican artist Alice Rahon, born in 1904, was a friend of Frida Kahlo’s, but they were also joined in fate. When Rahon was three she broke her right hip and had to wear a cast for more than two years. When she was 12, another accident left her with a broken leg, incapacitating her once again. A pregnancy when young was brought to term, but the infant died from a birth defect. Though Rahon spent much of her youth in Paris, she traveled to Mexico in 1939, invited by Kahlo. The pair bonded over their physical fragility and inability to have children. That trip to Mexico, and the country’s blazing color palette, inspired Rahon’s first paintings, which she executed in watercolor. Later on she moved to oils, drawings, collages, and objects. Rahon injured her spine in 1967 and thereafter remained a recluse until her death in 1987. In her first solo gallery show in over 45 years, 17 works shed light on this powerful but overlooked artist. —Elena Clavarino