Nina Barka

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Nina Barka (5 October 1908 – 1986), real name Marie Smirsky,[1] was a prominent naive artist. She was born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) of Ukrainian parents, but moved to France, where she became a French citizen. Her work had many Russian (Slavic) and Byzantine themes.[2]

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  1. ^ "Musée Daubigny - Val d'Oise" (PDF). Génériques. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  2. ^ Jakovsky, Anatole (1979). Naive painting. Phaidon. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-7148-1955-6.

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