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A painting within a red frame shows a woman from the neck up in the center. She looks directly at the view and has her dark hair pulled up with yellow flowers on top of her head. Surrounding the brilliant-blue background that encircles her head is a design of red and pink flowers with two multicolored birds that face in around her shoulders. A painting within a red frame shows a woman from the neck up in the center. She looks directly at the view and has her dark hair pulled up with yellow flowers on top of her head. Surrounding the brilliant-blue background that encircles her head is a design of red and pink flowers with two multicolored birds that face in around her shoulders.

Member Previews: Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris—A Friendship with Mary Reynolds

Thurs, Mar 27 | 10:00–8:00
Fri, Mar 28 | 10:00–5:00

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Enjoy two full days of member-only access to Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds and see the exhibition before it opens to the public.

Unveiling Frida Kahlo’s work for the first time in the Art Institute galleries, this exhibition focuses on the celebrated Mexican artist’s first and only trip to Europe and her brief yet pivotal encounter with Mary Reynolds, an American avant-garde bookbinder who stood at the center of a rich Parisian artistic community.

Drawing upon the extensive Mary Reynolds Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago and extraordinary Kahlo loans from public and private collections in the US, Mexico, and Europe, the presentation sheds light on this little-known chapter of 20th-century art history, recounting the legacies of Kahlo and Reynolds—both artists themselves and partners of artists—as they navigated Surrealism, identity, and cross-cultural exchange on the eve of World War II.

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Major support for Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds is provided by the Zell Family Foundation, Pat and Ron Taylor, Constance and David Coolidge, The Donnelly Family Foundation, Natasha Henner and Bala Ragothaman, and Kathy and Chuck Harper.

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