Alice Halicka (c1889-1975)
Biography of polish Cubist and Modernist artist Alice Halicka (c1889-1975)
Alice Halicka (c1889-1975) was a Polish innovator of Cubism, Moderism and collage born in Krakaw who moved to Paris in 1912.
Halicka married the painter Louis Marcoussis and among her Parisian friends were Georges Braque, Andre Breton, Max Erst and Jean Arop.
In 1914, Guillaume Apollinaire sees her Cubist still lifes at Le Salon des Independants and she becomes a member of this Cubist group until the early 1920s.
In the 1930s, Halicka makes three trips to New York and in 1935 works for Helena Rubinstein as an advertising designer. She was also prominent in ballet set and costume design working with Igor Stravinsky and the choreographer George Balanchine on The Kiss of The Fairy performed at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1937.
In 1941, her husband dies and in 1945 she heads back to Paris where she publishes an autobiography Yesterday and writes a column for the Nouvelles Litteraires entitled In the shade of the Bateau Lavoir.
The last twenty years of her life are punctuated with trips to India (1952), Poland (1956) and Russia (1960).
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