WHY I COLLECT Collecting
At university, it bothered me that art history books were so focused on art by men, and that women artists were rarely part of the story. They were more often the ones being painted: the artists’ muses, not wearing many clothes.
I remember one particular tutorial on Manet's (1863), which was groundbreaking at the time for its depiction of a prostitute in the pose of a classical nude. Female nudes painted by
