(Mexico, 08/07/1893 - 23/01/1978) Born María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca in Mexico City, Olin and her family moved to France when she was four years old for her father’s military career, and it was here she discovered poetry and started writing her own. After meeting the Mexican diplomat and part-time painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano (1891-1971) in Spain, the pair married in 1913 and returned to Paris where she revelled in the city’s artistic circles and bohemian lifestyle. Returning to...

(France, 30/10/1853 - 10/07/1927) Born into a wealthy aristocratic family, Abbéma grew up surrounded by Paris’s artistic elite and began painting in her early teens by undertaking classes with history painter, Louis Devedeux (1820-1874), and later with landscape painter Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891) and portraitist Carolus-Duran (1837-1917). After meeting Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in 1871, with whom she would maintain a life-long artistic and romantic partnership, Abbéma regularly...

(Australia, 18/06/1864 - 11/08/1939) Born in Portland, Victoria in 1864, Goodsir wouldn’t begin her formal training until the age of 34 when she enrolled at the Bendigo School of Mines, and later continued her education at the National Gallery School in Melbourne. Influenced by the artist Arthur Woodward, her tutor while in Bendigo, she travelled to the United Kingdom and France at the dawn of the twentieth century, eventually settling in Paris where she took classes at the Académie...