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236:"Isabel Babianska and Marie de Banzie obviously work in close association, and are the most restless and experimental members of the group. They are the products of the Glasgow Art School, and in some of their works they very effectively employ the Gauguin-Wyndham Lewis synthesis which determines the style of Robert Colquhon, an artist from the same school, whose work has been exhibited in London. Their response to Jankel Adler has produced some dynamic paintings of war-machines in action, but it is in their portraits that they are particularly outstanding, and their interest in the expressive stylisation of the features of the human face will probably be responsible for their most significant work; they seem less inhibited and more soundly equipped for the approach to Picasso's special territory than most of the painters who have ventured near that field. Glasgow has reason to be proud of her young painters." 141: 272:
Her early work is signed in her maiden name, Isabel Brodie. In 1943 she married Count Tomasz Babianski, a Polish pilot officer. Thereafter she exhibited as Isabel Babianska. She had two daughters, named Monica and Irena. The first born 1945, and the second born in 1946, after they had moved to
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from 1936 to 1940. In 1939 she was awarded a travelling scholarship to London, however as war was declared shortly afterwards she remained in Glasgow, returning the scholarship money. The same year she exhibited a self-portrait, titled 'Reflection' at the
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headquarters in Bath Street. She was helped by her close friend Marie de Banzie. Together they collaborated in the design of costume and stage sets for the Celtic Ballet, including
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Isabel Dalziel Brodie was born in Glasgow where her father was a decorative metal worker in the city's shipyards and who encouraged her artistic abilities from a young age.
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She continued to paint in London, and also worked successfully as a photographic fashion model for agencies including
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In 1941 Brodie was commissioned by Glasgow Corporation to design and paint murals at the
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Writing about the group's second show in 1944, art critic
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Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors 1885-1965
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Brodie was a founder member of New Art Club and the
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Glasgow
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stage designer
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Glasgow School of Art
Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
Glasgow City Council
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Hospitalfield School of Art
YMCA
New Scottish Group
J.D. Fergusson
Robert Melville
Edinburgh International Festival
Dior
Vogue
Michael Whittaker





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