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Nadia Khodasevich (Grabowski) Léger (23 September 1904 – 7 November 1982) was a French artist. She was the first wife of the Polish painter Stanisław Grabowski and the second wife of the French artist Fernand Léger. Read the full biography

Nadia Khodasevich (Grabowski) Léger (23 September 1904 – 7 November 1982) was a French artist. She was the first wife of the Polish painter Stanisław Grabowski and the second wife of the French artist Fernand Léger. She ran the Académie with Georges Bauquier, whom she married after Léger's death in 1955. She collaborated with the architect Andreï Svetchine to build the Fernand Léger Museum in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes near Antibes in 1960, which was donated to the French state in 1967. The French Minister of Culture, André Malraux, opened the Fernand Léger national museum on 4 February 1969. He also transformed Léger's farm at Lisores in Normandy into a museum, the Ferme-Musée Fernand Léger, completed in 1970 .