Alice Halicka orAlicja Halicka (20 December 1895 – 1 January 1975)^[1] was a Polish-born painter who spent most of her life in France.

Alicja Halicka was born inKraków and studied withJózef Pankiewicz there. She studied withSimon Hollósy inMunich^[2] before moving to Paris in 1912, where she studied atAcadémie Ranson underPaul Sérusier andMaurice Denis. There she met and married theCubist painterLouis Marcoussis in 1913. In 1921, she showed cubist work together with her husband at theSociété des Artistes Indépendants. She also exhibited her work at the Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (1930–31), Le Centaure, Brussels, the Leicester Galleries, London (1934),^[3] the Marie Harriman Gallery, New York (1936), Julian Levy Gallery, New York (1937).^[4] Halicka painted in various styles but also produced work in fabric, including Romances capitonnées,^[3] and even made set designs for ballets which were performed at theMetropolitan Opera of New York andCovent Garden, London.^[1][5]

She spent World War II in France and wrote a memoir afterwards calledHier, souvenirs, published in 1946. Halicka died in Paris in 1975.^[1]

Alice Halicka's work is characterized by a great rigor of constructions (many architectural themes) combined with variety, fantasy and poetic inspiration. It includes many oil paintings, landscapes, still lifes, gouaches, drawings, collages, watercolours, engravings, decorative works on fabrics, decorative screens (for Helena Rubinstein), decorations for ballets (such asLe Baiser ofStravinsky's Fairy in 1937, which was performed at the Metropolitan Opera) and illustrations of literary works.^[6][7]

Alice Halicka's works can be found in many private collections and in the permanent collections of museums, such as the Museum of Jewish Art and History and theMuseum of Modern Art in New York.^[8]

• 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).

• Alice Halicka onartnet
• (in Polish)Alicja Halicka - Życie i twórczość, biography at Culture.pl

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