As with every new exhibition, Friends have the opportunity to take part in a guided tour, in this case of the principal event of the season at the museum: Picasso/Chanel, which explores the relationship between these two great 20th-century creators by bringing art and fashion together.

Pablo Picasso and Gabrielle Chanel met in the spring of 1917, possibly through Jean Cocteau or Misia Sert, forming a close and long-lasting friendship. Chanel was closely connected to the artistic and intellectual worlds of Paris of the period and she and Picasso collaborated on two occasions on projects involving Cocteau: his play Antigone (1922) and Le Train Bleu (1924) by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.

Two sections of the exhibition are devoted to these two productions, in addition to an opening section which reveals the influence of Cubism on Chanel’s early designs and another that focuses on the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova, Picasso’s first wife and a devoted client of Chanel.

In addition, on Monday 7 November there will be a non-guided visit to the exhibition offered exclusively to Friends, who can bring a guest.

Exhibition organized with the support of the National Commission for the Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and with the exceptional support of Musée national Picasso-París

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