Coco Chanel and Marion Pike

Californian artist Marion Pike met Coco Chanel when she painted her portrait in 1967. The story of their friendship ? revealed in this exhibition for the first time ? provides a fascinating new narrative. Marion was a superb colourist, whose paintings ? many monumental in size ? are both sensitive and exuberant - qualities that Coco Chanel often was described with.

The exhibition includes five striking portraits of Chanel ? which have never before been exhibited together, in addition to beautiful haute couture fashion pieces worn by Marion and her daughter Jeffie.
All of the exhibits have been lent by Jeffie Pike Durham, who has become her mother’s archivist.