Les femmes artistes d'Europe opened at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, then the Musee des ecoles etrangeres contemporaines. The exhibition ran from 11 to 28 February 1937 and gathered hundreds of works by women artists from across Europe and beyond. Organized with figures including Andre Dezarrois, Antonietta Paoli Pogliani, Rose Valland, Laure Albin-Guillot, and Marie-Anne Camax-Zoegger, it placed contemporary women artists inside an important state museum context at a moment when professional women's art societies were pressing for recognition. The show included painting, sculpture, decorative arts, drawings, prints, and watercolors, and juxtaposed living artists with a retrospective section honoring earlier figures such as Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot.
It became a rare prewar museum-scale statement of women's international artistic production.
