Exhibition in Bristol, the city of her birth, celebrates Paule Vézelay whose ascent was stymied by sexism and war
Britain’s “first” abstract artist, whose legacy has mostly been obscured because of a combination of sexism and the second world war, is to have her first major exhibition in more than 40 years.
Vézelay, who changed her name from Marjorie Watson-Williams upon moving to France in 1926, will be the subject of a retrospective in her home town that will include 60 works spanning her six-decade career.at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, said that because she moved to Paris, Vézelay was away from the gaze of the British art world, while the war stymied her ascent and sparked a swift departure from the French capital in the 1930s.
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