Your article on the fresh exhibition at Tate Britain entitled Picasso and Modern British Art (How Picasso helped British art go modern, 14 February) started with Vanessa Bell’s enthusiastic response to Picasso.Bell achieves a brief mention at the exhibition itself, and that is the sum total of female involvement – except, of direction, for making up a large percentage of the images themselves. This is Picasso and his seven male admirers.Vanessa Bell’s later partner, Duncan Grant, has employment included, however she does not. Nor does Ben Nicholson’s second wife Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore’s contemporary, get a mention despite being a keen visitor with Nicholson to the studios of Picasso and other members of the Paris-based Abstraction-Creation Collection.I am no fan of involving women just for the sake of political correctness, however surely this exhibition is unbalanced by not including some female artists. Bell and Hepworth, at the very least, deserve to be included.Felicity RussellAbingdon, OxfordshirePablo PicassoTate BritainWomenArtguardian.co.uk © 2012 Twitter News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Employ of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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