This exhibition started a tour of the major museums in France in June 1971, and integrated Lisbon in its itinerancy, due to be inaugurated on April 17th, 1972, 32 years after Arpad Szenes’ last exhibition in Portugal. The exhibition was held in the Temporary Exhibitions Gallery in the main building of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG) (Ground and Lower Ground Floor), presenting Arpad’s work in an ample space, although with occasional brief appointments in its museum circuit through various stand-alone vertical panels, where some of the painter's major works were given pride of place.

In contrast with this layout, there is another one, located on the Ground Floor of the Temporary Exhibitions Gallery, in the Lower Ground Floor, more intimate and in a less illuminated space, where Arpad's drawings were exhibited on darker panels.

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992) and Arpad Szenes (1897-1985) did not attend the opening ceremony of the exhibition for political reasons. However, a few days later, on May 1st, 1972, an event was held on the exhibition venue to welcome all artists, which involved the participation of various important personalities in the cultural sphere, especially invited by the FCG.

Following this exhibition, the FCG acquired the artwork Eclipse (1962) which, despite being already part of the exhibition's itinerancy project until April 1974, was only officially incorporated in the collection in Lisbon in April 1975. This was the date at which it was possible to send it from the Paris delegation to the FCG Head Office, after the political events of the April Revolution in 1974.