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Ladislas Medgyes (born Medgyesi László; 7 July 1892 – 25 January 1952) was a Hungarian-American artist.Roland Penrose, Lee Miller: The Surrealist and the Photographer 2001.Dan Rottenberg. Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy 1986. p 287 During the 1920s Medgyesi provided scenic design for many operetta, opera, and theatre productions in Paris, Theatre Magazine – Volumes 37–38 1923 – Page 68 Opera News – Volume 21 1956– Page 113 including the fully staged version of Aucassin et Nicolette. In 1927, he travelled to America and gave an exhibition of his paintings and also Sculpture. American Hebrew and Jewish Tribune 1927 "A Poet in Glass"
He immigrated to the United States in 1941. He worked as art director for Helena Rubinstein's cosmetics firm. He died in 1952 in Manhattan.
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