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Women Artists

Le Corbusier's Cabanon © Manuel Bougot – FLC/ADAGP Paris 2017

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I am The Last of my Kind, 2019 (left) and You Came, 2018 (right), on display at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, from 7 December 2020 until 28 February 2021.

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Berthe Morisot, Woman with a Fan. Portrait of Madame Marie Hubbard (Femme à l'éventail. Portrait de madame Marie Hubbard) (detail)

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Two women artists who broke into the boys’ club

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Angelica Kauffman, Self-portrait of the Artist hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting (detail)

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