Table of Contents

Introduction - "Charmy....sees like a woman and paints like a man"; images of bourgeois life - early training in St Etienne and Lyon; women painters and the Parisian avant garde - Charmy and exhibiting societies, dealers and "Fauves"; "To see like a woman" - the school of Paris and the idea of a "feminine" style; public and private art - the art market and the nude; the cult of succes - consolidation and official recognition; art history and women painters in post-war Paris. Appendices: unpublished diary of first woman art dealer, Berthe Well; biographies of women artists ; listings of all exhibitions; French and British art collections with their work represented.

About the Author

Gill Perry is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University