Roughly a hundred by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera could be watched at the National Museum of l’Orangerie in the month of September as part of a number of cultural, scientific, fundraising and college activities during the Year of Mexico in France.
Within that vast program, the Frida & Diego exhibit is one of the most anticipated events since never before an exhibition featuring so many pieces by those two artists had been mounted, said Carlos Phillips, director of Dolores Olmedo Museum, the institution that treasures the largest collection of artworks from these two Mexican creators, considered the priciest in the today’s art market.
The exhibition will come along lectures and roundtable discussions on the sentimental and intellectual relationship between the two of them. In the meantime, over 65 works made by Diego and 35 by Frida –out of the Dolores Olmedo Museum and countless private collectors- will be exposed in France and Mexico. The public could also feast eyes on some fifty European works by boldface names like Picasso, Modigliani, Cezanne, Renoir, Matisse, Gauguin and Monet, belonging to the collection of the National Museum of l’Orangerie.
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