Large group exhibition at Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm in the Summer and Fall of 1988. In total art by 29 female artists were exhibited, all of whom had studied, lived or worked in Paris and the immediate vicinity in the 1880s. The exhibition was thematically linked to the large exhibition "1880-årene i nordisk maleri" or "The 1880s in Nordic Painting" which had been on view in Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Helsinki in 1986 and 87, and largely covers the same period. This exhibition however solely focuses on the works made by female artists which made it possible to both shine a light on previously more unknown painters and to present a broader view of the works of the artists. Harriet Backer for instance who had four paintings in the previous exhibition was now represented with nineteen. The exhibition had 264 works by 11 Swedish, 5 Norwegian, 8 Danish and 5 Finish artists, both famous names such as Anna Ancher, Helene Schjerfbeck Hanna Pauli and Kitty Kielland, but also lesser-known artists such as Sofie Werenskiold.

The exhibition wanted to show both how the Nordic artistic communities abroad, in Paris were instrumental the working conditions of female artists when they returned to their home countries in the 1890s and the often-overlooked importance of female painters in the Nordic historiography.


Catalogue in Swedish with 264 works and several longer texts on both individual artists and the period in general, including a text by Marit Lange on Harriet Backer's and Kitty Kielland's Parisian years.