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Badaro returned to Egypt after graduation and settled in
Alexandria. During the war years, she worked in the hospitals and canteens frequented by soldiers returning from battle in the northern desert. During that time, she painted scenes of sailors, bars, and soldiers in cabarets, some of which today
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In 1969, the year following her sister's death, Jeanne
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Badaro was commissioned to design posters for charity fairs and exhibitions, but most of these are no longer to be found. When the war was over, Badaro began a series of character portraits. Then, in 1948, she spent the summer in the
Dolomites, where, unusually for her, she composed a number of
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In 1950, Clea Badaro married the
Alexandrian artist Giovanni di Pietro. She then took part in several national and international exhibitions, including the Biennale of Venice, the Biennale of Alexandria, and exhibitions in SĂŁo Paulo, Moscow, Leningrad, Madrid, and Barcelona.
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In 1961, Badaro's husband died and she herself experienced a decline in health. Her sister, Jeanne
Engalytcheff-Badaro, began to spend more time in Alexandria, cared for her sister, helped to organize the Atelier's activities and wrote regular articles for its bulletin.
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many female characters: supplicants, weeping women, adolescents and tightrope walkers in bright light. In 1974, Engalytcheff-Badaro organized a retrospective exhibition of her sister's oil paintings, this time in Paris at the
Galerie Weil.
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which she worked with a knife to create a mosaic impression. Later, these paintings were dubbed “icons” by the
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217:Clea Badaro: sa vie, son oeuvre
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