Subject: Nude
Medium: Charcoal On Paper
Size: 20 x 27 inches
Frame: 25 x 32 inches
Condition: Great overall condition

Signature: Signed lower right


Tamara De Lempicka (1898 - 1980)


The artist was born Tamara Gorska in Warsaw around the turn of the century, the precise date is uncertain. She summered in St. Petersburg and married a well-to-do Russian lawyer, Tadeusz de Lempicki in 1916. Two years later the couple fled the Bolshevik Revolution for Paris. There they moved into the circle of exiled Russian nobility and other out-of-work aristocrats. It was there that De Lempicka took up painting. The teacher who had the greatest influence on her was Andre LHote, who sought to apply the principles of Cubism in traditional subjects such as landscapes, nudes and portraits.

Seriously ambitious in her art, tall blond De Lempicka managed to turn her headlong lifestyle into a business asset. Her notoriety attracted clients, clients became patrons, and lovers. And there were countless lovers, male and female. The Lempickis had one daughter, Kizette, who was later to co-author a biography of her.

Tadeusz de Lempicki divorced her in 1928. She painted a portrait of him that year, leaving unfinished the left hand which would have carried the wedding band. In 1933 she married Baron Raoul Kuffner on the understanding that she could continue to live as she pleased. De Lempicka flourished through the Depression, but in 1939, she and Kuffner left for the United States, eventually landing in Beverly Hills. Her reputation faded; they moved to New York, then Houston and finally Cuernavaca, Mexico. She died there in 1980.

Art scholars and critics are divided on De Lempicka. Many regard her as an artist who merely reflected her times rather than helped to define them. Her best work has been described as striking and seductive; her late work "barely this side of paintings on black velvet."



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