Below is a list of names of women abstract artists mentioned in Michel Seuphor's "Dictionnaire de la Peinture Abstraite" from 1958, as well as other sources, and a PDF of biographical summaries updated by HFA can be found here:
Women Artists in Post-War France (biographies)
Women Artists in Post-War France (photographs)
ACCARDI, Carla (1924-2014) Italy
ASSE, Genevieve (1923-2021) France
BARNS-GRAHAM, Wilhelmina (1922-2004) UK
BERGMAN, Anna-Eva (1909-1987) Norway
BERTRAND, Huguette Arthur (1925-2005) France
BLOCH, Pierrette (1928-2017) Switzerland
BLOW, Sandra (1925-2006) UK
BOISECQ, Simone (1922-2012) France
BONNET, Anne (1908-1960) Belgium
BOUMEESTER, Christine (1904-1971) Netherlands
BRUNSCHWIG, Colette (1927)
CAHN, Marcelle (1895-1981) France
CALMIS, Charlotte (1918-1982) France
CARO, Anita de (1909-1998) USA
CHESNAY, Denise (1923-2016) France
CITRON, Minna (1896-1991) USA
CLAISSE, Genevieve (1935-2018) France
CLAUSEN, Fransiska (1899-1986) Denmark
COPPEL, Jeanne (1896-1971) France
CROWLEY, Grace (1895-1979) Australia
DELAUNAY, Sonia (1885-1979) France
DREIER, Katherine (1877-1952) USA
DUMITRESCO, Natalia (1915-1997) Romania
DUSTIR, Wilma (1914-?) Russia
ERASMUS, Nel (b.1928) South Africa
ERZINGER, Lili (1908-1964) Switzerland
FALKENSTEIN, Claire (1908-1997) USA
FINE, Perle (1908-1988) USA
FREIST, Greta (1914-1993) Austria
FRELINGHUYSEN, (MORRIS), Suzy (1912-1988) USA
GODIN, Raymonde (1930-2023) Canada
GOLDFARB, Shirley (1925-1980) USA
GONTCHAROVA, Natalie (1881-1962) Russia
GRENIER, Madeleine (1929-1982) France
GUTH, Hella (1912-1992) Czech Republic
HAASS, Terry (1923-2016) France
HOCH, Hannah (1889-1978) Germany
HOLLEY, Francine (1919-2020) Belgium
HUNZIKER, Frieda (1908-1971) Netherlands
JAFFE, Shirley (1923-2016) USA
JAN, Elvire (1904-1996) Bulgaria
JANIN, Louise (1893-1997) America
JING-LANG, Xie [nickname Lalan] (1921-1995) China
KARSKAYA, Ida (1905-1990) Russia
KLAPISCH, Liliane (1933) Israel
KOSNICK-KLOSS, Jeanne (1892-1966) Poland
LOLO, Dolores Soldevilla (1911-1971) Cuba
LOUBCHANSKY, Marcelle (1917-1988) France
MANTON, Maria (1915-2003) Algeria
MARC, Evelyn (1915-1992) France
MAREZ-DARLEY, Nelly (1906-2001) France
MARK, Anna (1928) Hungary
MASON, Alice Trumbull (1904-1971) USA
MITCHELL, Joan (1926-1992) USA
MOLNAR, Vera (1924) Hungary
MOSS, Marlow (1890-1958) UK
MULLER, Juana (1911-1952) Chile
NEGRI, Nina (1909-1981) Argentina
NEMOURS, Aurelie (1910-2005) France
PAGAVA, Vera (1907-1988) Georgia
PAN, Marta (1923-2008) Hungary
PINK, Lutka (1916-1998) Poland
PAVLOWSKY, Jacqueline (1921-1971) France
PENALBA, Alicia (1913-1982) Argentina
RAYMOND, Marie (1908-1988) France
REBAY, Hilla (1890-1967) Germany
REIGL, Judit (1923-2020) Hungary
RUDULPH, Rella (1906-1988) USA
SAUR, Greta (1909-2000) Austria
SEKULA, Sonia (1918-1963) Switzerland
SPENCER, Vera (1926-2021) Czech Republic
STARITSKY, Anna (1911-1981) Ukraine
TAEUBER-ARP, Sophie (1889-1943) Switzerland
TRYGGVADOTTIR, Nina (1913-1968) Iceland
VAITO, Agathe (1928) Hungary
VEZELAY, Paule (189-1984) UK
VIEIRA DA SILVA, Maria Elena (190-1992) Portugal
WALDBERG, Isabelle (1911-1990) Switzerland
WEBB, Marie (1917-1958) Australia
ZEID, Fahr-el-Nissa (190-1951) Turkey
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MARIE RAYMOND (1908-1988)
“MONTAGNE”
oil on canvas, 89 x 145cm, (35 x 57in),
signed lower right, painted 1961
EXHIBITED:
Galerie Cavalero, Cannes, 1963.
"Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970",
Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2023.
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VALENTINE PRAX (1889-1981)
“LE PAYSAN AU BORD DE LA MER”
oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm (19 3/4 x 23 1/2in)
signed lower right
painted circa 1958
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CHRISTINE BOUMEESTER (1904-1971)
“PAYSAGE AUX CHEVAUX”
oil on canvas, 50 x 150cm (19¾ x 59in),
signed lower right “Christine”, and dated, 1953
PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Camille Renault.
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MARCELLE CAHN (1895-1981)
“COMPOSITION, 1949”
oil on wood, 24 x 33cm (9 1/2 x 13in)
signed lower left, painted in 1949
EXHIBITED:
“Salon des Réalités Nouvelles”, Paris, 1949, (illus. in cat.)
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PATRICIA DISKA (1924-2003)
“FORME TECHTONIQUE”
black marble on wooden base,
height 28cm (22 3/4in),
signed underneath
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HUGUETTE ARTHUR BERTRAND (1920-2005)
“COMPOSITION, 1954”
oil on canvas, 100 x 73 cm (39 1/2 x 28 3/4in)
signed lower right, also signed and dated on reverse, 1954
EXHIBITED:
Galerie Arnoux, Paris
PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, New York
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NINA NEGRI (1909-1981)
“COMPOSITION D’ORO”
oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm (19 3/4 x 25 1/2in)
signed lower right,
and counter-signed on stretcher
painted c.1950
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DORA MAAR (1907 - 1997)
“COMPOSITION GÉOMÉTRIQUE”
oil on canvas, 116 x 89cm (45½ x 35in)
bears stamp of the Artist’s Estate lower left,
and signed on reverse
painted c.1967
PROVENANCE: The Estate of the Artist
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JACQUELINE PAVLOWSKY (1921-1971)
“ENTRE-DEUX, IMPOSSIBLE ÉCHAPÉE”
oil on canvas, 50 x 100cm, (19 ½ x 39 ½ in)
signed and dated, 1967
also signed, dated, and titled on reverse
bears atelier stamp, “Atelier J Pavlowsky No.139”
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BOYADJIEVA, LIUBA (1923-2005)
“OISEAU”
bronze, height 51cm (20in)
signed and dated, 1977,
and numbered 1 of an edition of 6
EXHIBITED:
“Liuba”, Galerie Hervé Odermatt, Paris, 1979, (no.23)
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HELENE GUINEPIED (1883-1937)
"LA LÉGENDE DE LA RIVIÈRE"
Oil on canvas, 78 x 96cm (30¾ x 37¾in)
Signed lower right,
Painted 1921-1922
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