Niloufar will be exhibiting her painting shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition at Salon Des Refuses 23-26 June. The exhibition follows in the tradition of the 19th century Parisian Salon des Refusés, when Napoleon let rejected works be exhibited alongside those accepted ones after artists protested the Salon jury’s rejection of 3000 works. It’s hard to believe, but Édouard Manet, Whistler and other artists whose works are worth millions now, were actually not accepted for the great Salon exhibition in their times in Paris.