Griselda Pollock is Professor emerita of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History (CentreCATH) at the University of Leeds. She is the 2020 Laureate of the Holberg Prize, awarded for her founding contribution to feminist revisions of art history, and Fellow of the Association for Art History (UK). Her publications include Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology (1981, co-authored with Roszika Parker), Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism, and Histories of Art (1987), Mary Cassatt (1998) and Differencing the Canon: Feminism and the Histories of Art (1999).

Griselda Pollock, feminist art historian and longstanding advocate of gender and racial inclusivity, unpacks the racist, sexist, and imperialist underpinnings of works created by Gauguin and others as they competed for preeminence in the European artistic avant-garde of the 1880s and '90s.