1st Milka Bliznakov Prize

Adrienne Gorska Milka Bliznakov Prize Final Report submitted by Claire Bonney July 2002

Documents of interest -Photograph, banquet of Union des artistes modernes, upon the occasion of the opening of their 3rd exhibition at the Pavillon Marsan, Clair-Obscur Restaurant, February 4, 1932. Gorska seated with Mme and M. René Herbst, Mme and M. André Salomon, Mme and M. Robert Mallet-Stevens, Mme and M. Pierre Chareau, Mme Hélène Henry, etc. Archives Maison de Verre, Paris. printed in: Pierre Chareau architecte, un art intérieur, exhibition catalog Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 5 November 1993 - 17 January 1994, p. 24 -Portrait of Pierre de Montaut by Tamara de Lempicka, 1931, Published in Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall, Passion by Design, New York: Abbeville Press, 1987, p. 128. Documents concerning Gorska's membership in the Union des artistes modernes: -Invitation to 3rd exhibition UAM (1932), Pavillon Marsan, listed as Adrienne Gorska, 5, rue Paul-Saunière, Paris 16 -UAM manifesto 1934, listed as Adrienne Gorska -UAM manifesto 1949, listed as Mme de Montaut Gorska, 33, avenue des Champs-élysées, Paris 8. printed in: Les années UAM 1929-1958, exhibition catalog Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, 27 September 1988 - 29 January 1989. -Snapshot of Adrienne Gorska and Pierre de Montaut with his children, Jean-Pierre and Françoise, c. 1939, printed in Laura Claridge, Tamara de Lempicka, a Life of Deco and Decadence, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, p. 210. -Funeral photographs, southern France, October, 1969. One is printed in Laura Claridge, Tamara de Lempicka, a Life of Deco and Decadence, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, p. 308.

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