Ivanna Lemaître (1893-1973)

Sepia ink drawing Signed lower right. He figures a naked man taking a posture. Size of the work: Frame dimensions: Contemporary quality frame. Ivanna Lemaître is a Russian aristocrat exiled in Paris where she marries André Hubert Lemaître painter frescoed who will carry out many orders from the state as the salon of Marshal Lyautey at the Colonial Exhibition of 1931, the church of Meudon and many others . During the German occupation, Ivanna Lemaître leaves for Nice where she settles definitively. She receives in her living room many famous people, Cocteau, Gide, Mauriac, Lifar and many others. She paints and draws a lot, but also makes decorative panels for the state or municipalities such as the School of Arts and Mêtiers in Paris. She died in 1973 and rests in the Russian cemetery of Nice.