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Artist in oil and mixed media, gallery director, born near Wilno, Poland, married to the writer Zygmunt Nalecz. She studied art in Poland and Paris, moving to England in 1946. Was a founder of the New Vision Centre Gallery, in 1957 starting the Drian (based on name Mondrian) Gallery with Constructivist Art 1950–1960. Well over 200 artists were launched at Drian, including John Bellany and William Crozier. In 1976 Nalecz donated 180 works from her collection to the National Museum in Warsaw, in 1983 387 to the National Museum in Gdan´sk. Nalecz’s own work was abstract in the 1950s, changing to richly coloured fantasy landscapes. Showed widely in Britain and abroad, including AIA, WIAC, Free Painters and Sculptors all of which she was a member, RA and LG.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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