At the invitation of Pierre Levai, President, and the Directors of Marlborough Gallery Her Majesty Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi attended an exhibition of recent work by the prominent realist painter, Claudio Bravo *, at Marlborough Chelsea, 545 West 25 Street, on October 21st. This lively reception celebrated Bravo’s first exhibition in Chelsea and marks his third decade of representation by Marlborough. The show includes over fifty paintings ranging from intimate still life to monumental triptychs. Over 500 hundred people attended the popular event, with guests including contemporary artists Manolo Valdés, Clive Smith and Steven Charles; David Ebony, Managing Editor of Art in America; Broadway producer Barry Weissler and other patrons and supporters of the arts.
His work may be found in the collections of museums around the world including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museo Nacional de Bellas Arte, Santiago, Chile; Museum Boymans-van Beunigen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; and the Rufino Tamayo Museum of International Contemporary Art, Mexico.