Tamara De Lempicka (1898 - 1980) was active/lived in California, New York / France, Poland, Mexico. Tamara De Lempicka is known for Art deco female figure and portrait painting.


Medium: Oil on Canvas, Laid on Board
Size: 30" x 24"
Frame Size: 40" x 34"
Condition: Canvas laid on board, has some bulges between canvas and board, only visible in extrame angle, see photos.
Circa: 1950's

Tamara de Lempicka, described as the first woman artist to be a glamour star, is known for her Art Deco-styled portraits of sexy, bedroom-eyed women in stylish dress and haunting poses. Her clear, strong style, sometimes called Soft Cubism, earned her a place at the top of the Art-Deco movement.

Her life is a dramatic story itself. Married twice to wealthy men, she moved from her native Poland to Russia, and then to Paris. In 1918, she studied painting at the Academe de la Grand Chaumiere, and was privately tutored by Maurice Denis. In 1925, she exhibited her works at the first Art Deco show in Paris.

She had been born into a wealthy and prominent family; her father was Boris Gurwik-Górski, a Polish lawyer; and her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Polish socialite. Maria was the middle child with two siblings. She attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and spent the winter of 1911 with her grandmother in Italy and on the French Riviera, where she was treated to her first taste of the Great Masters of Italian painting. In 1912, her parents divorced and Maria went to live with her wealthy Aunt Stefa in St. Petersburg, Russia. When her mother remarried, she became determined to break away to a life of her own. In 1913, at the age of fifteen, while attending the opera, Maria spotted the man she became determined to marry. She promoted her campaign through her well-connected uncle, and in 1916 she married Tadeusz Lempicki (1888-1951) in St. Petersburg—a well-known ladies' man, gadabout, and lawyer by title, who was tempted by the significant dowry. Her banker uncle provided the dowry, and Lempicki, who had no money of his own, was no doubt delighted to marry the beautiful sixteen-year old Tamara.


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Private Collection from New Jersey

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