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Nadezhda Udal'tsova was a Russian painter and stage designer who developed an approach to Cubism distinct from her European contemporaries. Active from the early 1910s through the Soviet period, she worked across oil painting, watercolor, and theatrical design, often incorporating flattened planes and geometric fragmentation while maintaining a lyrical sensibility. Her work navigated the aesthetic pressures of the Russian avant-garde and later Soviet artistic demands.