Artnet: "At 94, Artist Isabella Ducrot Is a Rising Star"

As galleries rush to diversify their rosters, there has been a recent trend for “discovering” great women artists very late in life. In some cases, however, it was not just the art market’s torpor that held these women back. Many suppressed their artistic sensibility until the decades of managing a household, supporting a husband, or childrearing were over. One such revelation from recent years is the 94-year-old Italian writer and artist Isabella Ducrot, whose long harbored fascination with textiles only had the chance to flourish when the artist reached her sixties.

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