After the success in 2021 of an exhibition on women painters between 1780 and 1830, the one devoted to the Pioneers, led by curators Camille Morineau and Lucia Pesapane, is interested in those who lived in Paris during the decade of the Roaring Twenties, at the end of an era destroyed by war - twenty million civilian and military deaths. A new meaning to the world must be found? These women emancipated themselves and asserted themselves in all fields of creation. These women are emancipated, asserting themselves in all areas of creation: tomboys, vagabonds, new Eves, sometimes displaying a third sex - queer before the term is used. "A parenthesis of splendour, in Paris, between the darkness of the First and Second World Wars: Marlow Moss, Rita Kernn-Larsen, María Blanchard, Tamara de Lempicka, Sarah Lipska, Amrita Sher-Gil, Sonia Terk, Gertrude Stein, Colette...



Extract from the article by Pascale Lismonde published in the number 100 of the magazine Art Absolument, published on 18 March 2022.