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Λουκία Νικολαϊδου
Γεννήθηκε στη Λεμεσό το 1909 και πέθανε στο
Penn
της Αγγλίας το 1993. Σπούδασε στο Παρίσι. Είναι η πρώτη Κύπρια
που ασχολήθηκε, με πρωτοποριακό μάλιστα τρόπο, με τη ζωγραφική.
Τα έργα της έχουν μετα-ϊμπρεσιονιστικές αναζητήσεις και αυτά που
έκανε στην Αγγλία, όπου έζησε το μεγαλύτερο μέρος της ζωής της,
χαρακτηρίζονται από διαρκείς πειραματισμούς.
Loukia Nicolaidou
Born in Limassol in 1909.
Upon high-school
graduation she enrolled at ABC School in Paris receiving
painting lessons by correspondence for a year.
In 1929 she became
the first Cypriot woman to study abroad, at the
Colarossi Academy in Paris for a year. She then was
accepted at the Ecole nationale Superieure des Bauex-Arts,
at the famous atelier of prof Loucien Simon.
Upon her graduation
she returned to Cyprus and had her first personal
exhibition in April 1933 at the Papdopoulos Mansion,
Nicosia, but had a poor response from the Cyprus
public.
In 1937 she left Cyprus
for London, where her older sister had settled.
In 1939 she
participated in a group exhibition with well known
artists and her work made quite an impression.
After her marriage
to shipowner Ioannis Vassiliou she gradualy witdrew from
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