Edited in Luxembourg, 2023, in French, 429 pages, author: Olga Pavlinova, available on Amazon.

More than 200 woman painters with their short biographies, self-portraits, portraits and other artworks dating from before 1917; as well as articles, quotes and testimonies from historians, diplomats and artists of the period.

This book depicts the role of women in society and in art, the borderless pan-European artistic space they were creating since the early 19th century, the artistic ambition of the first women to enter the Academy of Fine Arts in the mid-19th century, or to create the famous Russian avant-garde movement in the late 19th century, and all this to end up facing the women’s artwork in isolation or exile after 1917.

This book does not pretend to be exhaustive, as it represents only part of the research undertaken by the author, but it provides an opportunity to learn more about artists whose art is often forgotten or underestimated, to pay tribute to their talent and courage.

The publication is dedicated to the author’s grandmother, Elizaveta Pavlinova (born princess Obolensky), an artist-painter who suffered the tragedy of losing her parents killed in the Gulag, but who found salvation in her artwork and her family.