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Nadia leger artist biography

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Lecture “Mosaic legacy of Nadia Léger. 50 years later”

On 13 October 2023, at 7:00 PM, the JINR Cultural Centre “Mir” ivites all interested to a lecture “Mosaic legacy of Nadia Léger. 50 years later” by Tatyana Romanenkova.

Tatyana Romanenkova is the head of the Culture and Tourism Department of the Dubna city district administration, for many years headed by the JINR Cultural Centre “Mir”.

In 1972, the famous French artist born in Belarus Nadezhda Khodasevich Léger presented USSR with a collection of mosaic portaits of outstanding political and cultural figures of the 20th century. Ten mosaics are located in the park opposite the Cultural Centre “Mir”, and four, with portraits of astronauts, are located near the Cultural Centre “Oktyabr”.

For any inquiries please contact +7 (496) 216-44-44 (ticket office). Free admission.

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Restless Ventures of Nadia Khodasevich Léger

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Artsmarts • • Author: Marta Berg

Her life was a tangle of crazy deeds and contradictions. Born in the wilderness and poverty,she became a millionaire. She was a staunch member of the Communist Party and at the same time an avant-garde artist criticizing Soviet socialist . She lived in luxurious apartments and drove luxurious cars,was a philanthropist and painted portraits of Lenin and Stalin. Mentioning her name,they certainly add "the wife of Fernand Léger", although she was the wife of the famous artist for only three years at the end of his life. Thus,Arthive presents the story of Nadia Khodasevich Lé
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Nadia Khodasevich-Léger studied drawing at the Below Art Academy of Great Russia. While she was living in Smolensk in 1920-1921, the young artist found herself deeply impressed by a conference held in 1920 by disciples of Malevich – members of UNOVIS (“champions and founders of the New Art”) – on the creation of a new Suprematist educational and artistic system. She then attended the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and married the Polish painter Stanislaw Grabowski in 1923. The couple moved to Paris and joined Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant’s Académie Moderne, where she took part in several exhibitions as a Polish artist. She also showed her work at Parisian galleries and salons. She separated from her husband following the birth of her daughter Wanda in 1927. Left penniless, she associated with the Polish poet Jan Brzękowski to create a French-Polish review, L’Art contemporain/Sztuka Współczesna (1929-1930), which featured Fernand Léger on its first cover and published poems by Tristan Tzara, Robert Desnos, and Michel Seuphor, and works by Picasso, Braque, Louis M

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