Nadia Khodasevich Léger

Nadia Khodasevich (Grabowski) Léger (Russian: Наде́жда Петро́вна Ходасе́вич-Леже́) (5 November 1904 – 8 May 1983) was a Belarusian-French artist. She was the first wife of Polish painter Stanisław Grabowski and the second wife of French artist Fernand Léger. The Russian form of her name can be transliterated as Nadezhda Khodasevich or Khodassevich or Khodasievitch; and from the Polish form, Wanda Chodasiewicz.

She was born into a poor family of Polish descent in Asiecišča () (also known as Osetishche), then in the Vitebsk Governorate of the Russian Empire, now in the Vitebsk Region of northern Belarus, a few miles west of Lepiel, and roughly equidistant from Vitebsk, Polatsk and Minsk.

She was a cousin of poet Vladislav Khodasevich.

From 1919 to 1921, she studied at an art workshop in Smolensk with avante garde artists Władysław Strzemiński and Kazimir Malevich. She then studied under Miłosz Kotarbiński () at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1922, where she met and then married Polish painter Stanisław Grabowski in 1923. The couple moved to Paris in 1924, and she then studied at the Académie Moderne () in Paris, led by Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant. Léger asked her to teach at the Academy, which she did until his death in 1955. (The Académie Moderne became the Académie de l'Art Contemporain in 1931). Her work was exhibited regularly in Paris from 1926 to 1929, and with the Cercle et Carré association in the 1930s, under the name "Wanda Chodasiewicz-Grabowska"; she later preferred the name "Nadia". She was involved with the a.r. group which donated art to a modern art museum in Łódź in 1929, the Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi ().

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