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Exhibitions: the incredible journey of Marie Vassilieff, the "Notre-Dame de Montparnasse"

2023-01-09T14:07:44.190Z


STORY - The Françoise Livinec Gallery rediscovers this pioneer of modern art. Marie Vassilieff, here is a character! A lively, outgoing character whose fearless strength defies obstacles. A generous character, open to others in this Montparnasse of artists towards which “all the boulevards of the world converge” . An artist immersed in modern art which blossoms at the beginning of the 20th century and surrounds it like a big atomic cloud with its madly creative whirlwind. M


Marie Vassilieff, here is a character!

A lively, outgoing character whose fearless strength defies obstacles.

A generous character, open to others in this Montparnasse of artists towards which

“all the boulevards of the world converge”

.

An artist immersed in modern art which blossoms at the beginning of the 20th century and surrounds it like a big atomic cloud with its madly creative whirlwind.

Marie Vassilieff is not unknown to art historians, but this singular painter remains unknown to the general public.

Despite the Vassilieff villa, her studio hidden in a dead end at 21, avenue du Maine (15) and which today houses the Aware association (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions), which, precisely, aims to create, index and disseminate information about women artists of the 20th century.

Through an unprecedented double exhibition, gallery owner Françoise Livinec is doing a pioneering work by unveiling some forty paintings and drawings by an artist…

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Source: lefigaro

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