Czwiklitzer, Suprematisme de Nadia Khodossievitch-Léger.

Condition : good, slight signs of shelf wear, minor foxing to margins.
Illustrations : 93 mounted colour plates.
Binding : publisher's full cloth, dust jacket missing.

Reference work (paintings, drawings, watercolours, jewellery and sculptures).

Nadia Khodossievitch (Grabowska Léger), born in 1904 in Ossetishchi (Vitebsk Region) in Belarus and died in 1982, was a Belarusian painter and the wife of Fernand Léger.
She painted nudes, still lifes and pacifist propaganda panels in the robust figurative style of F. Léger, with an emphasis on the decorative and "poster" aspect. N. Khodossiévitch-Léger spent the Second World War fighting clandestinely against fascism, alongside the PCF and the Soviet Union. She painted mosaic portraits of Communist heroes. In 1952, the painter, now in her fifties, married her septuagenarian master, F. Léger. In 1960, she built a museum in Biot dedicated to her husband. N. Khodossiévitch-Léger's pictorial work is divided between abstract works, a somewhat crude imitation of Malévitch's Suprematism, and figurative canvases and mosaics, where the primitivist robustness of the forms is not without a certain colour refinement.