# Visionnaires: Carte blanche à Prune Nourry

Prune Nourry has been given carte blanche at the Petit Palais, where her sculpted portraits of eighteen overlooked women sculptors from the late 19th and early 20th centuries appear across the museum. The works draw on a year of research by three art historians and sit within the permanent collections.

- Type: Museum
- When: on view October 20, 2026 – January 24, 2027
- Where: Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, 2 avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris, Champs-Élysées / Matignon
- Artists: Prune Nourry, Käthe Kollwitz, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Hélène Bertaux, Jane Poupelet, and Sarah Bernhardt
- Part of: [Paris Art Week 2026](https://artweekguide.com/weeks/paris-2026)
- Event's own page: https://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/decouvrir-la-programmation/expositions/visionnaires
- On Art Week Guide: https://artweekguide.com/events/visionnaires-carte-blanche-a-prune-nourry

## From the organiser

Artist Prune Nourry takes over the whole museum with sculpted portraits of eighteen overlooked women sculptors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries – among them Käthe Kollwitz, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Hélène Bertaux, Jane Poupelet and Sarah Bernhardt – based on a year of research by three art historians. Free, within the permanent collections.

## Also on Tuesday 20 October

- **Until Oct 25** · [Avenue Winston-Churchill sculptures – Art Basel Paris Public Program](https://artweekguide.com/events/avenue-winston-churchill-sculptures-art-basel-paris-public-program) — Other at Avenue Winston-Churchill (between Petit Palais and Grand Palais), Champs-Élysées / Matignon. An open-air sculpture show between the Petit Palais and the Grand Palais, part of the Art Basel Paris Public Program. Eight large-scale works are on view, among them Marcello Maloberti's neon *CIEL*, hung about 20 m up, and Carmen Herrera's *Angulo Amarillo*. Free.
- **Until Oct 23** · [PASSAGES – Pas sages (Quai d'Orsay, on the occasion of Art Basel Paris)](https://artweekguide.com/events/passages-pas-sages-quai-d-orsay-on-the-occasion-of-art-basel-paris) — Museum at Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères – Quai d'Orsay, Invalides / Eiffel Tower. An exhibition in the historic salons of the Quai d'Orsay, home of the French foreign ministry, set alongside Art Basel Paris. It mixes historical and contemporary art, design, crafts, heritage objects and diplomatic archives. Co-produced by Thierry Lemaire and Harry Nuriev; entry is free, by reservation.
- **Until Oct 25** · [Robert Indiana – LOVE Wall](https://artweekguide.com/events/robert-indiana-love-wall) — Other at Place Clemenceau, Champs-Élysées / Matignon. Almine Rech presents *LOVE Wall*, a large Cor-Ten steel sculpture by Robert Indiana, worked on between 1966 and 2006. Four LOVE forms are stacked in a block, positioned so the letter O of each meets at the centre. Free to see, as part of Paris Art Week.
- **Until Dec 18** · [Tracey Emin: I will miss you Yesterday I will miss you Today I will miss you Tomorrow And that's how it will Always be](https://artweekguide.com/events/tracey-emin-i-will-miss-you-yesterday-i-will-miss-you-today-i-will-miss-you-tomorrow-and-that-s-how-it-will-always-be) — Show at White Cube Paris, Champs-Élysées / Matignon. A solo exhibition at White Cube Paris, timed to Art Basel Paris. Tracey Emin shows small bronze sculptures and new paintings dealing with desire, forbidden love and loss, drawing on scenes from her home in Margate and her experience of illness.