Pioneers: Artists in the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, exhibition in Paris

From March 2 to July 10, 2022, the Museum of Luxembourg in Paris is presenting paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, textiles, and literary works that highlight the role of women in the development of modern artistic movements in the 1920s.

The pioneers include artists such as Tamara de Lempicka, Sonia Delaunay, Tarsila do Amaral, and Chana Orloff, born at the end of the 19^th century and the beginning of the 20^th century. This is the time that women gained access to the great schools of art. During the 1920s, the roaring twenties, many of the artistic women stayed in Paris for a few weeks or a few years to “be seen” in the art sphere.

The new pioneering women were the first to be recognized as artists, and have their own studio, gallery, or publishing house. They led art workshops that drew and painted naked bodies, male and female. They dressed as they wished, expressed whatever sexuality they wanted to, and chose to marry or not. They had ownership of their studios, their professions, their lives, and their bodies.

The exhibition is curated by Camille Morineau, Curator of Heritage and Director of the Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions (AWARE), with associate curator art historian Lucia Pesapane. The exhibition is supported exclusively by CHANEL.

Artist: Juliette Roche 1918

Artist: Jacqueline Marvel 1920

Artist: Marie Laurencin 1924

Artist: Amrita Sher-Gil 1934

Artist: Aleksandra Belcova 1927

Artist: Jacqueline Marvel 1923

Artist: Lucie Cousturier

Artist: Gerda Wegener 1922

Artist: Sarah Lipska

Artist: Alice Halicka 1930

Artist: Tamara de Lempicka 1927

Artist: Tamara de Lempicka 1933

Artist: Romaine Brooks 1923

Artist: Romaine Brooks 1920-1923

Artist: Marie Vassilieff 1928

Artist: Sophie Taeuber-Arp 1918

Artist: Nina Hamnett 1918

Artist: Mela Muter

Artist: Gerda Wegener 1922

Artist: Suzanne Valadon 1923

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