The forgotten brilliance of Hélène de Beauvoir, sister of Simone

> Now, with a show of her paintings opening at the Amar Gallery in London, the record is being set straight, as Hélène 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.”

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.

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]