Nadia Khodasevich Léger

[1] She then studied under Miłosz Kotarbiński at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1922, where she met and then married Polish painter Stanisław Grabowski in 1923.

Her work was exhibited regularly in Paris from 1926 to 1929, and with the Cercle et Carré association in the 1930s, under the name "Wanda Chodasiewicz-Grabowska"; she later preferred the name "Nadia".

After the death of his first wife Jeanne-Augustine Lohy in 1950, Fernand Léger married Nadia Khodasevich in February 1952, and they lived at Gif-sur-Yvette, in the south-west suburbs of Paris.

She collaborated with architect Andreï Svetchine to build the Fernand Léger Museum in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes near Antibes in 1960, which was donated to the French state in 1967.

The French Minister of Culture, André Malraux, opened the Musée national Fernand Léger on 4 February 1969.