Visionnaires - Ongoing

The exhibition Visionnaires (Visionaries) at the Petit Palais brings together a new body of work by Prune Nourry and a selection of her earlier sculptures that echo the museum’s holdings. Invited to take carte blanche, the artist conceived the project in response to a reflection, undertaken with the museum, on the importance of raising the profile of women artists in its collections. While women appear in the collections mostly as figures depicted – allegories or nude models – they account for only 4 percent of the artists, among them just four sculptors: Camille Claudel, Berthe Girardet, Sarah Bernhardt, and Hélène Bertaux.