The “Beauté Congo” exhibit at the Fondation Cartier in Paris was so successful that it was extended until 2016. Famous men such as Congolese politicians, Barak Obama and Muhammed Ali were the subjects of many works. I rarely saw the image of a woman- even then, they were provocatively dressed or a showcasing a car or pregnant with a male writer/artist. Most wall labels indicated the artists were men. This is not unusual, in any part of the world. According to the Guerrilla Girls, in 2012 less than 4% of artists in the modern art section of the Metropolitan Museum of New York were women. Ken Johnson wrote about this same issue at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 51 Contemporary Artists, but Just Three Women In 2016, in a major art capital like Paris, at an exhibit representing an entire country and spanning a century, I had hoped for more. I asked someone working at the museum if there were any women artists in the exhibit. One assistant said: “There is one downstairs.” Fi