Benefactor and Patron Curator-led Tour | Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds

Join Caitlin Haskell, Gary C. and Francis Comer Senior Curator in Modern and Contemporary Art, for a discussion of Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds and its aims. This exhibition— the Art Institute’s first presentation of Kahlo’s work—focuses on her month-long stay at the home of Mary Reynolds, an avant-garde bookbinder best known today as Marcel Duchamp’s partner. Drawing from the extensive Mary Reynolds Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as extraordinary Kahlo loans from public and private collections in the U.S., Mexico, and Europe, the Art Institute is able to tell this story with unrivaled accuracy. Kahlo is presented alongside a cast of characters that included not only Reynolds and Duchamp, but also Man Ray, Constantin Brancusi, and others. Shedding light on a little-known chapter of 20th-century art history, the exhibition explores the legacy of two women navigating identity, partnership, and cross-cultural exchange on the eve of World War II.

You must be a Patron or Benefactor member in good standing to attend this complimentary event.