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Nadezhda Andreyevna Udaltsova

Russian artist
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Andrei D. Sarabianov
Art historian and art critic. Author of The Unknown Russian Avant-Garde and Ivan Kliun.
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Née:
Nadezhda Andreyevna Prudkovskaya
Born:
Dec. 29 [Jan. 10, New Style], 1886, Oryol, western Russia
Died:
Jan. 25, 1961, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. (aged 75)

Nadezhda Andreyevna Udaltsova (born Dec. 29 [Jan. 10, New Style], 1886, Oryol, western Russia—died Jan. 25, 1961, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was one of the leading figures of the pre-Revolutionary Russian avant-garde. Of her Russian peers, she was the most influenced by French Cubism. But personal misfortunes and the social conditions of the Stalinist era led her to withdraw to her studio, turning her into a marginal figure in Soviet art. Udaltsova was born into a military officer’s family. The decisive moment of her turning to new art was her introduction to contemporary French painting in 1908 at the home of ...(100 of 552 words)

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