For our first presentation at the London Art Fair 2025, we will dedicate our stand to an international group of 20th-century women artists who worked in abstraction. We will bring together works by artists from the UK, France, Romania, Ukraine and Russia. We will present works from the 1920s to the 1990s including various approaches to abstraction from Constructivism to Soviet Non-Conformism, post-war British abstraction from London and St Ives, and Lyrical Abstraction from the post-war New School of Paris. The presented artists are: Prunella Clough (British, 1919-1999), Sandra Blow (British, 1925-2006), Lydia Masterkova (Russian, 1927-2008), Anna Staritsky (French-Ukrainian, 1908-1981), Jeanne Coppel (French-Romanian, 1896-1971), Liubov Popova (Russian, 1889-1924), Kathleen Guthrie (British, 1905-1981) and Rosina Rogers (British, 1918-2011). 

In highlighting the women artists from the collection, we are not trying to isolate these artists from their contexts that unsurprisingly involve artists who are also men. Rather, we want to shine a brighter light on the life and work of these artists. Some are famous around the globe, others are only known to some and have fallen through the gaps in the harsh selectiveness of cultural memory. In staging an exhibition at the London Art Fair 2025 that focuses solely on abstract artists-women we are not implying a uniting femininity or a common theme that connects these works. Rather, we want to show the diversity in the work of artists-women, highlight their contributions to the abstract movements they were part of, and reinstate their importance within the art historical currents which seek to sideline them. 

To coincide with the exhibition at London Art Fair we are publishing a catalogue of the women artists from the Quad Fine Art collection which will expand on and provide greater context to the themes explored in our fair presentation. 

Please contact us if you would like to receive an invitation to the fair or a copy of the catalogue.