Alice Halicka
Alice Halicka or Alicja Halicka 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 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. She also exhibited her work at the Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Le Centaure, Brussels, the Leicester Galleries, London, the Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Julian Levy Gallery, New York. 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 Covent Garden, London.
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
