Xenia Puni Boguslawskaja - Artist Info

About Xenia Puni Boguslawskaja

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Ksenia Boguslawskaya-Puni
  • Biography

    Ksenia Boguslawskaja is a forgotten painter, fashion and textile designer. Born in St. Petersburg, the artist had to leave her home country because of her involvement in the socialist movement. She went to Krakow and N

    She lived in Paris in 1911 and returned to Russia in 1913. The painter participated in the Russian futuristic and supremacy movement, and her and Puni's apartment was perhaps the most important salon of the Russian avant-garde. In 1919 she moved to Vitebsk, and in 1919-23 she lived with her husband in Berlin.

    In 1923, she returned to Paris and settled there permanently. In the interwar era, she returned to cubism-inspired easel painting, dealing with set design and costume design. From this time comes "Still...

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