From Tuesday to Friday and Sunday: 10:00 - 19:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 21:00
Monday: Picasso/Chanel exhibition closed. Permanent Collection open free of charge from 12:00 to 16:00h
Museo Nacional, Madrid Thyssen-Bornemisza
11.10.2022 – 15.01.2023
The exhibition Picasso/Chanel explores the relationship between Pablo Picasso and Gabrielle Chanel and their professional collaboration on two occasions, both with Jean Cocteau, for Antigone (1922) and in Sergei Diaghilev's Russian ballet Le Train Bleu (1924). They met around the spring of 1917, probably through Misia Sert or Cocteau himself. The designer struck up a long and lasting friendship with both of them that would introduce her to the Spanish painter's circle. From then on, Chanel would frequent the Picasso couple, coinciding with the artist's active participation in the Russian ballets. The artist became closely associated with the artistic and intellectual world of Paris at the time, to the point of saying: "it is the artists who taught me rigour".
The exhibition, curated by Paula Luengo, is organised into four large sections that follow one after the other in chronological order and cover approximately the decades between 1908 and 1925.
The exhibition is part of the project called Celebration Picasso 1973-2023, a programme of more than fifty exhibitions and events commemorating the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death, which will take place between 2022 and throughout 2023 in the venues of renowned cultural institutions in Europe and the United States.
Podcast Thyssen: Picasso/Chanel, an encounter between two geniuses