96-year-old curtain of works by Pablo Picasso for Diaghilev's ballet "the three-cornered Hat" from the end of may (and if not accurately, from 29 may) will take place in the permanent exhibition of his new and, hopefully, the last home of the new York historical society. This, apparently, is the greatest work of Pablo Picasso on site SSA@

a Piece of curtain size is 5.8 × 6 meters was created by Picasso in 1919 for the one-act ballet "the three-cornered Hat" ("Le Tricorne") Leonid mjasina to the music of Manuel de Falla. Picasso was engaged in decoration of this ballet. It depicts a crowd watching corridoi@

unfortunately, the curtain is not full, it will only fragment. When in 1928, the organizer of the "Russian seasons" by Sergei Diaghilev was in financial difficulty, he cut off a fragment of the curtain and sold it to a private collector. And in 1957, this piece was purchased by Phyllis Lambert, the daughter of the founder of the conglomerate Seagram Co. (VIV) of Samuel Bronfman, to decorate the legendary restaurant "Four seasons" ("Vremena goda") in a 38-floor skyscraper Seagram building. From 1959 to 2014 curtain "cocked hats" never left the lobby, the restaurant, which even became known as "Picasso alley".

However, during the years of the wall, near which hangs a curtain stretched, beginning to crumble under the influence of moisture coming from the restaurant kitchen. The owner of the Seagram building aby Rosen Aby Rosen) insisted that the further finding of the Picasso curtain near the wall could hurt him. About the fate of the fragile curtain for some time argued the building owner and the owner of the curtain — new York Committee for protection of monuments (New York Landmarks Conservancy), which in 2005 bequeathed "the Cocked hat" Phyllis Lambert. In the end, we agreed that the curtain gently moves in the new York historical society. So from late may to the Picasso curtain will look exactly Tam@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Источники: artnet.com, artinvestment.ru