--- Tamara de Lempicka Paintings  Exhibition

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Tamara de Lempicka
Born  May 16, 1898, Warsaw, Poland

Died  March 18, 1980 Cuernavaca, Mexico

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Short Biography (Britannica)

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Tamara de Lempicka , an important Art Deco painter, was born Maria Górska in a wealthy family in Warsaw, Poland (then in the Russian Empire). In 1917, during the Russian Revolution, her husband was arrested by the Bolsheviks. Although only eighteen years old, Tamara pleaded for, and finally secured, his release. The Lempickis then fled to Paris, France where she became known as Tamara de Lempicka. She studied art and became a well-known portrait painter, developing a distinctive and bold style, sometimes referred to as soft cubism, which epitomizes the cool modernism of Art Deco. Tamara de Lempicka was bisexual, and her affairs with both men and women were carried out in ways that were scandalous at the time. She often used formal and narrative elements in her portraits and nude studies to produce overpowering effects of desire and seduction.

 

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24 Selected Paintings
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