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Marie-Ange Ciolkowska (1898-1992), Paris

Marie-Ange Ciolkowska married the painter and art-critic, Henri Saulnier-Ciolkowski in 1924 and it was through him that she discovered African and Oceanic art. Initially collectors the couple would later become dealers. In 1933 Marie-Ange agreed to run the antique shop of the music hall artist, Suzy Solidor, and in the same year Henri died in a car accident. Marie-Ange became friends with Madeleine Rousseau and they both took part in an exhibition of Oceanic art in the Galerie Messages in the 1940s. Marie-Ange’s flat in the Rue Jacob would become a regular destination for intellectuals such as Stéphen-Chauvet, Breton Tzara and Loeb.