Clément-Benois, Léla |
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BORN 31 Mar 1898, St. Petersburg - DIED 7 Jul 1972, Paris BIRTH NAME Benois, Elena Alexandrovna GRAVE LOCATION Paris: Cimetière des Batignolles, 8 rue Saint-Just (division 25) |
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Elena Alexandrova Benois was the youngest daughter of the painter and historian Alexandre Nikolaevich Benois from Saint Petersburg. She studied with Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938). In 1926 she moved to Paris, where she produced sketches for several ballets with Ida Rubinstein at the Opera of Paris. In 1926 she painted a portrait of the painter Zinaïda Serebriakova (1884-1967). In 1937 she worked with her father on the oratorio "Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher"with music by Arthur Honegger and text by Paul Claudel. In 1937 she exhibited her paintings for the first time in Paris at the ZAK gallery and on that occasion two of them were bought by the French State for the Jeu de Paume museums. In 1955 an exbition was held at the Villa Olmo in Como of the work of her father, her brother Nicolas and herself. Family • Father: Benois, Aleksander |
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 The grave of Aleksandre Benois and Léla Clément-Benois at the Cimetière des Batignolles, Paris. Picture by Androom (02 Nov 2017) |
 The grave of Aleksandre Benois and Léla Clément-Benois at the Cimetière des Batignolles, Paris. Picture by Androom (02 Nov 2017) |
Sources • Hélène Clément-Benois - Wikipédia (FR) |
