"The lively Picasso wedding party took place one year after Picasso had made Cubist stage and costume designs for Parade (1917), the first of a number of commissions from the Ballets Russes which concluded with the artist's The Two Women Running on the Beach ( The Race, 1922) being scaled up and used as the front curtain of Le Train Bleu (1924) for its first London performance."
"It was held in the mirrored, Louis Seize-style, room where Pablo Picasso celebrated his 1918 marriage to Olga Khokhlova, a principal dancer with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. A portrait over the room's fireplace still bears the indent from a champagne cork released on that occasion. The historic hotel, in rue de Rivoli, a stone's throw from Musée du Louvre, was also a home from home to Salvador Dalí, who used it for three decades as his Parisian pied à terre."
Le Meurice's Pompadour Room hosted a cultural dinner convened by the World Economic Forum and the J. Paul Getty Trust under the theme "Bridging Worlds: Culture as a Force for Connection in Times of Division". Katherine Fleming and Joseph Fowler co-hosted the Paris Art Week event on 23 October, bringing together art world leaders to consider art's health and soft power benefits. The dinner took place in the historic, mirrored room where Pablo Picasso celebrated his 1918 marriage and where connections to the Ballets Russes and later Salvador Dalí endure. Guests referenced Picasso's Parade commissions and cultural figures such as Max Jacob, Jean Cocteau and Guillaume Apollinaire. The event continued a series of WEF cultural tables run by Fowler since 2023.
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