Galerie Pierre Colle

Paris art gallery (Renou et Colle) on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris. In Hayden Herrera’s Frida it hosts the 1939 “Mexique” show, Frida’s first exhibition in Europe.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Frida	Hayden Herrera	setting	Duchamp finds the gallery; the March 1939 show wins praise and a Louvre purchase but little money.

Frida — Hayden Herrera (1983)

Source: Frida - A Biography of Frida Kahlo · Original · Readwise highlight

Finally there was a gallery called “Pierre Colle” which accepted the damn exhibition.

• Role: setting
• In the book: In Chapter 15 Marcel Duchamp gets Frida’s paintings out of customs and secures this gallery. Colle’s associate at first thinks only two works are not too shocking, but “Mexique” opens on March 10 with seventeen of her paintings amid Breton’s Mexican objects and photographs. The opening draws praise from Kandinsky, Picasso and Miró; sales are poor, but the Louvre buys The Frame.
• Why it matters: It is the culmination of the Paris trip, her first European exhibition and her first museum acquisition.