Nadia Khodossievitch-Léger (1904-1982) was a key figure in twentieth-century art. Featuring over 150 works, the retrospective Nadia Léger. Une femme d’avant-garde retraces the largely unknown journey of this exceptional woman, who was at one and the same time a prolific painter, magazine editor, collaborator with her husband Fernand Léger, Resistance fighter, museum builder and fervent Communist activist.

The exhibition follows her journey from her native Russian village to Paris, the influences she experienced and the artistic communities she encountered. Using original dialogues with works by Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso and students of the Atelier Léger (Nicolas de Staël, Hans Hartung, Marcelle Cahn…), the exhibition explores the universe of this adept of collective adventures.

An artist first and foremost, her work never ceased to evolve through contact with the avant-gardes of her time, in constant tension between abstraction and figuration. From Cubism to Suprematism, from Suprematism to Realism and back to Suprematism, her output bears witness to her ability to reinvent herself, illustrated by a signature that changed with each stage of her creative life.

An art and history exhibition conceived, designed and produced by Tempora, in collaboration with Aymar and Jean du Chatenet.