Femmes, Années 50 : Au Fil De L'abstraction, Peinture Et Sculpture

Exhibition at the Musée Soulages, Rodez, 14 December 2019 - 10 May 2020

In Paris in the 1950s, women artists, painters, printmakers and sculptors were working in large numbers. Some were attached to great figures: Sophie Taueber-Arp and Sonia Delaunay; others were involved in the adult age of painting: Christine Boumeester, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Judit Reigl, Marie Raymond; others had just arrived: Pierrette Bloch, Anna Mark, Liliane Klapisch... They exert an active force, albeit in a scattered fashion, which is multiplied tenfold by the critics and gallery owners. They oscillate between concrete art and lyrical abstraction. Despite a lack of recognition, they traced a path in what is conveniently called the École de Paris. If they joined this movement, it was often to go beyond it.

Through 43 women and 83 works, this exhibition catalogue traces the history of these women artists who freed themselves from the male canons and, from the end of the 1960s onwards, provoked the irruption of specifically feminine themes while establishing a coherent art.