"The Salon Pompadour in Paris's historic Le Meurice hotel, a short walk along the rue de Rivoli from the Musée du Louvre, is to be home to a gathering designed to bring change through culture. The event comes 107 years after Paris's artistic beau monde gathered in the same room to celebrate the wedding of Pablo Picasso, the reality-altering enfant terrible of Modern art, to Olga Khokhlova, a principal dancer with Sergei Diaghilev's defiantly avant gard e Ballets Russes."
"According to the hotel, one of the paintings in the Salon Pompadour still bears the indent from a champagne cork popped during the Picasso wedding reception on 12 July 1918. The wedding party took place just over a year after Picasso made Cubist stage and costume designs for Parade (1917), the first of a succession of commissions from the Ballets Russes and Diaghilev, which culminated in Picasso's monumental design for the curtain of Le Train Bleu (1924)."
An event will take place on 23 October in the Salon Pompadour at Le Meurice during Art Basel Paris. Katherine Fleming of the J. Paul Getty Trust and Joseph Fowler of the World Economic Forum will jointly host invited guests for presentations by innovators working at the intersection of art, technology and business. Le Meurice holds a layered art history and served as Salvador Dalí's Paris base from 1950, and one painting still bears an indent from a champagne cork popped at Picasso's 1918 wedding reception. The event continues a series of WEF Cultural Tables held since 2023 in London, New York and Paris.
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