{{short description|French painter}}
{{Infobox artist | name = Alice Halicka | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1895|12|20|df=y}}<ref name="Papillon">{{cite web|title=Alice Halicka 1895-1975|url=http://www.papillongallery.com/alice_halicka.html|website=Papillon Gallery|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref> | birth_place = Kraków, Poland | death_date = {{death date and age|1975|1|1|1894|12|20|df=y}} | death_place = Paris, France | education = Académie Ranson | field = Painting | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = {{marriage|Louis Marcoussis|1913}} }} '''Alice Halicka''' or '''Alicja Halicka''' (20 December 1895 – 1 January 1975)<ref name="Papillon"/> was a Polish-born painter who spent most of her life in France.
==Biography== Alicja Halicka was born in Kraków and studied with Józef Pankiewicz there. She studied with Simon Hollósy in Munich<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alice Halicka |url=https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/alice-halicka/ |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes |language=en-US}}</ref> before moving 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 (1930–31), Le Centaure, Brussels, the Leicester Galleries, London (1934),<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Catalogue of an exhibition "Romaces Capitonnées" by Alice Halicka|first=Alice|last=Halicka|date=1934|publisher=Ernest Brown & Phillips|oclc=272519375}}</ref> the Marie Harriman Gallery, New York (1936), Julian Levy Gallery, New York (1937).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays|author=Bénézit, E. |date=1999|publisher=Gründ|isbn=2700030109|oclc=966172080}}</ref> Halicka painted in various styles but also produced work in fabric, including Romances capitonnées,<ref name=":0" /> and even made set designs for ballets which were performed at the Metropolitan Opera of New York and Covent Garden, London.<ref name="Papillon"/><ref>[http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=86249 Baiser de la fee: Costume design for the ballet], collection MOMA</ref>
She spent World War II in France and wrote a memoir afterwards called ''Hier, souvenirs'', published in 1946. Halicka died in Paris in 1975.<ref name="Papillon"/>
== Works == 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 as Le Baiser of Stravinsky's Fairy in 1937, which was performed at the Metropolitan Opera) and illustrations of literary works.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SHALOM |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http://www.shalom-magazine.com/ |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=archive.wikiwix.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Librizzi |first=Jane |title=The Blue Lantern: Alice Halicka: Something cool |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https://thebluelantern.blogspot.com/2020/05/alice-halicka-something-cool.html |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=archive.wikiwix.com}}</ref>
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 the Museum of Modern Art in New York.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alice Halicka {{!}} MoMA, on The Museum of Modern Art |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/2461 |access-date=July 20, 2020}}</ref>
==Citations== {{reflist}}
==References== *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).
==External links== * [http://www.artnet.com/artists/alice-halicka/past-auction-results Alice Halicka] on artnet *{{in lang|pl}} [http://culture.pl/pl/tworca/alicja-halicka Alicja Halicka - Życie i twórczość], biography at Culture.pl
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