Nadia Khodasevich Léger
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Nadia Khodasevich (Grabowski) Léger (Belarusian: Надзе́я Пятро́ўна Хадасе́віч-Лежэ́. Russian: Надежда Петровна Ходасевич-Леже) (23 September 1904 – 7 November 1982) was a French-Belarusian artist. She was the first wife of Polish painter Stanisław Grabowski and the second wife of French artist Fernand Léger. The Russian form of her name can be transliterated as Nadezhda Khodasevich or Khodassevich or Khodasievitch; and from the Polish form, Wanda Chodasiewicz.
Early life
She was born into a poor family of Polish descent in
From 1919 to 1921, she studied at an art workshop in
Life in Paris
The couple moved to Paris in 1924, and she then studied at the
She separated from her first husband in 1927, after the birth of their daughter Wanda. They were divorced in 1932.
Fernand Léger remained outside France from October 1940 to December 1945, but Nadia remained in Paris during the occupation of France in the Second World War; she is believed to have been involved with the French resistance. After the death of his first wife Jeanne-Augustine Lohy in 1950, Fernand Léger married Nadia Khodasevich in February 1952, and they lived at Gif-sur-Yvette, in the south-west suburbs of Paris. She was involved in creating many of the works attributed to Léger after the war.
Later career
She ran the Académie with Georges Bauquier, whom she married after Léger's death in 1955.
She collaborated with architect
She and her second husband were both members of the French Communist Party. She was awarded the USSR Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1972.
She died in Grasse.
References
- ^ "Nadia Léger: Exposition du 28 février au 7 avril 2017" (PDF). cache.media.education.gouv.fr/. Ministère de l'Éducation nationale. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
Based in part in the corresponding articles from French and Russian Wikipedias
- Nadia Khodassievitch Léger: la grifffe du siècle, Sarah Wilson, Courtauld Institute of Art
- Wanda Chodasiewicz-Grabowska (Nadia Léger), culture.pl
- Wanda Khodossievitch - Nadia Grabowska - Nadia Léger (1904-1982), kubisme.info
External links
- Nadia Khodasevich-Leger, artnet.com
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