Alice Halicka or Alicja Halicka (20 December 1894 – 1 January 1975) was a Jewish-Polish painter who spent most of her life in France.

Biography

Alicja Halicka was born in Kraków and studied with Józef Pankiewicz there. She moved to Paris in 1912 where she studied at

Académie Ranson The Académie Ranson was founded in Paris by the French painter Paul Ranson (1862–1909), who himself studied at the Académie Julian, in 1908.

under Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis. There she met and married the Cubist painter Louis Marcoussis in 1913. In 1921 she showed cubist work together with her husband at the

Société des Artistes Indépendants The Société des Artistes Indépendants (''Society of Independent Artists'') or Salon des Indépendants was formed in Paris on 29 July 1884. The association began with the organization of massive exhibitions in Paris, choosing the slogan "''sans ...

. She also exhibited her work at the Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (1930–31), Le Centaure, Brussels, the Leicester Galleries, London (1934), the Marie Harriman Gallery, New York (1936), Julian Levy Gallery, New York (1937). Halicka painted in various styles but also produced work in fabric, including Romances capitonnées, and even made set designs for ballets which were performed at the Metropolitan Opera of New York and

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, London.Baiser de la fee: Costume design for the ballet
collection

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She spent World War II in France and wrote a memoir afterwards called ''Hier, souvenirs'', published in 1946. Halicka died in Paris in 1975.

Citations

References

*Birnbaum, Paula J. (1999). “Alice Halicka’s Self-Effacement.” In Diaspora and Modern Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews, edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff, 207–23. London/New York: Routledge, 1999. *Birnbaum, Paula J. (2011) ''Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities''. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. Print. * Troy, Nancy J. (2006). "'The Societe Anonyme: modernism for America'; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles." ''Artforum International'' 45.2 (2006) : 255-256. Print. *Cailler, Pierre, ed. (1962). Alice Halicka: Documents. Geneva: Editions Pierre Cailler (Les Cahiers d’Art - Documents Series). *Halicka, Alice. Hier (Souvenirs) (1946). Paris: Editions de Pavois. *Warnod, Jeanine. “Alice Halicka et ses souvenirs.” Terre d’Europe 48 (May 1974).

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