Hélène de Beauvoir at work. Hélène de Beauvoir, © APP, Ute Achhammer, courtesy Amar Gallery

Before we see any of the work at London’s Amar Gallery, we’re already burdened by that most famous of surnames. Born in 1910, Hélène de Beauvoir became an artist of modest renown. Her poetic, often challenging, but always enticing paintings gained some notoriety in her life but never achieved widespread or lasting attention. Hélène, sister of philosopher, social theorist and feminist activist Simone De Beauvoir, died in a small village in northern France in 2001.

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Now a small number of Hélène’s works are on view in “The Woman Destroyed” at London’s Amar Gallery. The gallery’s mission is to champion forgotten and neglected voices, and gallerist Amar Singh spent three long years........

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