France, March 8 -- French artist Eugenie Dubreuil has collected more than 500 works by female artists, beginning in 1999. Last year she donated her collection to the Sainte-Croix Museum in Poitiers, which is now putting them on display in an exhibition that aims to restore the forgotten voices of women in art.
"Women artists have long been marginalised in art history courses and by museums and galleries," Manon Lecaplainn, director of the Sainte-Croix Museum, told RFI."For decades, art history has been written without women. Why should our exclusively female exhibition be shocking?"
"Our aim is not to exclude men from art history," she explains. "The goal is to make people think."
The Sainte-Croix Museum has been known in France for its ...