[HN Gopher] The forgotten brilliance of Helene de Beauvoir, sist...
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       The forgotten brilliance of Helene de Beauvoir, sister of Simone
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2025-01-20 19:28 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | dkga wrote:
       | > Now, with a show of her paintings opening at the Amar Gallery
       | in London, the record is being set straight, as Helene finally
       | receives the recognition many feel she is due. "Our whole
       | mission," says gallerist Amar Singh, "is to search for overlooked
       | artists." Singh regales me with tales of cross-continental wild
       | goose chases on the trail of collectors who might just sell. Once
       | he hits upon an artist, he says, he looks into why they may have
       | been sidelined. "It is always," says the gallerist, "down to
       | gender, race or sexuality."
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       | This strikes a chord with me. I always said that if I did not
       | work in my field, one of the things I would love to do is to open
       | up an art gallery here in Basel focused on promoting such
       | artists. Imagine for example, how many talented artists say,
       | from, Congo or Laos, would just need some exposure to collectors
       | to promote their art.
        
       | aanet wrote:
       | Thanks for posting this. Lovely article on the life of an unknown
       | (to me, at least) artist, who it seems was foreshadowed by her
       | much more famous sibling.
       | 
       | Her paintings definitely look very original. At least
       | stylistically, they appear as distinctly identifiable, as, say
       | Tamara de Lempicka's. Another artist who was way ahead of her
       | time, and is now celebrated with her own exhibition at the SF
       | Legion of Honor [https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/tamara-de-
       | lempicka]
        
       | amarcheschi wrote:
       | I find some of her paintings to be loosely similar to some of
       | Italian futurists or Italian avant garde painters, especially
       | dudreville https://www.futurismo.org/leonardo-dudreville/ (I
       | think it's in italian only)
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       | Another in depth article in English about an exhibition and the
       | origin and themes of futurism and Italian avant garde painters,
       | although different from the themes of helene's paintings
       | https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/ab-art-base/futurism-or...
        
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