Artist Prune Nourry is spotlighting forgotten women sculptors from the late 19th and early 20th centuries in her exhibition "Visionaries" at the Petit Palais in Paris, running from October 20, 2026 to January 24, 2027. The show features Nourry's large sculpted portraits of 18 female artists—including Sarah Bernhardt, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Hélène Bertaux, Jane Poupelet, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, and Daria Gamsaragan—placed throughout the museum's gardens, esplanade, and permanent collections, alongside about twenty of her own works from the Venus or Holy Daughters series.
The exhibition matters because it directly confronts the historical erasure of women artists from art history, using contemporary sculpture to spark dialogue with the Petit Palais's permanent collections and highlight the systemic male-dominated power structures that rendered these women invisible. By honoring these pioneering sculptors and making the show free to the public, Nourry aims to inspire reflection on gender inequality in the art world and reclaim the legacy of women who carved out space for themselves despite immense obstacles.