Art PR Agency JPR Media Group works with Helene de Beauvoir exhibition at Amar Gallery

London, UK - 18 March, 2025 - Top Art PR agency JPR Media Group delivers art press coverage for the Helene de Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed exhibition at Amar Gallery.

Amar Gallery's exhibition Helene de Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed , is the first ever solo exhibition of Helene de Beauvoir's work in London. Often overshadowed by her older sister, the writer Simone de Beauvoir, this exhibition features paintings & works on paper from the 1950s to 1980s. Amar Gallery's founder, Amar Singh, was recently described by The Telegraph as a "farsighted art dealer" for consistently discovering overlooked artists and being the first gallerist to show the work of Lynne Drexler in London. The Woman Destroyed is an exhibition which took Singh three years to put together, sourcing works from around the world, meeting patrons of de Beauvoir and discovering how important Helene de Beauvoir was to her sister and the global feminist movement.

Editor Annalisa Tacoli notes Picasso was an admirer of Helene's paintings. Picasso became familiar with de Beauvoir's work when the artist had her first solo exhibition in Paris in 1936 at Galerie Jacques Bonjean, a gallery cofounded by Christian Dior, who began his career as an art dealer before becoming a fashion powerhouse. Galerie Bonjean also exhibited the work of Picasso, Braque, Dali and much like Helene even gave Leonor Fini her first solo exhibition.

In Tout compte fait (1972), one of Simone de Beauvoir's autobiographical works, she wrote collaborating with Helene was something she had long wished for. In 1967 one and forty-three first edition copies of Simone de Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed were published by Gallimard with sixteen etchings by Helene. First editions of this book are extremely rare, and one copy is on view at Amar Gallery. This incredibly important book in feminist ideology was the first time the de Beauvoir sisters collaborated together. Publisher Gallimard was afraid that the publication of such 'feminine' 3 literature would give it the mark of a publisher intent on overturning the social order.

The main themes covered in Simone de Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed are echoed in the individual memoirs of the de Beauvoir sisters, with particular regard to their mother's confined domestic life in their family home in the rue de Rennes, Paris, and Simone's later experience as the second woman in her relationship with philosopher, novelist and political activist Jean-Paul Sartre.

Referring to her sister, Helene wrote, "I was her first reader...and I would draw" in her book Souvenirs , where she recalls how, in the early years, she came to choose the vocation of artist, whilst her elder sister preferred to write.

In 1964, Sartre was awarded the Nobel prize in literature which he rejected as he did not wish to be "transformed" by such an award. After rejecting the award Sartre tried to escape the media by hiding in the house of Helene in Goxwiller, Alsace. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir remained close with Helene, regularly attending her exhibitions and immersing her with their electric circle including Cocteau, and Lionel de Roulet, whom Helene married.

Claudine Monteil, former French diplomat and women's rights specialist, presented a special talk at Amar Gallery about her relationship with both Simone and Helene de Beauvoir. Claudine details in her book The Beauvoir Sisters , that the two sisters shared a close bond and artistic influence on one another, but also about the jealousy and rivalry. Monteil also highlights how these two remarkable women came together to help launch the modern women's movement and make a mark on the world.

HELENE DE BEAUVOUR IN SELECTED COLLECTIONS & MUSEUMS

Centre Pompidou

Uffizi Museum Florence

Oxford University

Musee Wurth France Erstein

Museum of modern and contemporary art of the City of Strasbourg

The royal library of the Netherlands

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