Baroness Hélèné d'Oettingen (1887,

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- 1950, Paris), born Elena Francezna Miaczinska, was a Russian-French painter and writer. Her father is believed to have been a Polish nobleman, but she supposedly acquired the baroness title through marrying a Baltic baron. D'Oettingen used male pseudonyms to publish her art. She is known as a poet under the pseudonym Leonardo Pieu, as a novelist and art critic under the pseudonym Roch Grey, and as a painter under the pseudonym François Angiboult. She studied at the

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. In the 1910s, she held a literary salon, at her home on 229

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. This became an important meeting spot for avant-garde artists and critics, such as

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, Amadeo Modigliani and

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. Before the war, she helped save ''

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,'' with her nephew and lover Serge Férat. This made her a crucial link in the prewar

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network in Paris. Moreover, she also met Ardengo Soffici and

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. In 1918, she rented a large apartment in Nice where she hosted Marthe Donas and Archipenko, but also Modigliani and

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, at the time pregnant. Art dealers

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and

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also visited this apartment. Her work was exhibited at the

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* ''Le Château de l'étang rouge'', Roch Grey, illuminated with wood engraved by Survage. * « L'Homme, la ville, le voyage » a text published in the magazine ''

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''. * ''Chevaux de minuit'', thirteen poems illustrated by

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in 1936 and published by Iliazd. * Roch Grey,''Le Château de l’Étang rouge, Les Trois lacs, L’Âge de fer, Billet circulaire ,''Foreword by Isabel Violante, Paris, Conti, 2010. * Roch Grey, ''Photographies verbales : Écrits sur l’art et les artistes (1913-1956),''Introduction by Isabel Violante, Paris, Le Minotaure, 2016, 128 pp. ()

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