Sally Stockhold

Simone et Sartre, Le Conspiriteurs

From “myselfportraits, ode to icons” Series
Hand-colored archival pigment print
Edition of 6 + 2 APs
Sally Stockhold © 2010

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Beauvoir was a renowned French writer, existentialist philosopher, feminist, Marxist and social Theorist. She is also noted for her lifelong polyamorous relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre. Her private life came to be admired nearly as much as her work. She chose to never marry and did not set up a joint household with Sartre, their relationship being as complex as it was controversial for the time. They did not hesitate to take other lovers during their years together. However, Beauvoir and Sartre made a vow, and kept it, to share all the intimate details of their time spent with others. Beauvoir became world famous after publishing her feminist treatise, “The Second Sex” in 1949. “One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Simone de Beauvoir

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