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Ida Karskaya

Ida Karskaya (1905 - 1990) was active/lived in France, Russian Federation.  Ida Karskaya is known for Painting, collage, book illustration.

1905: Ida Karskaya was born in Bender (Russia, province of Bessarabia, at present Moldavian Republic).

1922: Leaves her country to study medicine in Ghent (Belgium) where she stays one year.

1924: Moves to France, marries the painter Serge Karsky in 1930. She herself starts painting a few years before the war and becomes acquainted with Chaim Soutine who encourages her to continue. Karskaya will remain on friendly terms with Soutine until his death.

1936: Birth of her son Michel.

1943: First one-woman show in Montpellier, Galerie Favier.

1945: Jean Paulhan, whom Karskaya met before the war, becomes interested in her work and introduces her to Fautrier, Wols, as well as writers whom she will befriend : Henri Calet, Francis Ponge, Maurice Nadeau, Marc Bernard and others.
Serge Karsky gives up painting and devotes himself to journalism, writing first for the newspaper Combat, then for Le Monde.

1946: First one-woman show in Paris, Galerie Pétri   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 18579 characters.]  Artist bio

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