- 82 pages
- English
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Lempicka and artworks
About This Book
The smoothly metallic portraits, nudes and still lifes of Tamara de Lempicka encapsulate the spirit of Art Deco and the Jazz Age, and reflect the elegant and hedonistic life-style of a wealthy, glamorous and privileged elite in Paris between the two World Wars. Combining a formidable classical technique with elements borrowed from Cubism, Lempicka's art represented the ultimate in fashionable modernity while looking back for inspiration to such master portraitists as Ingres and Bronzino. This book celebrates the sleek and streamlined beauty of her best work in the 1920s and 30s. It traces the extraordinary life story of this talented and glamorous woman from turn of the century Poland and Tsarist Russia, through to her glorious years in Paris and the long years of decline and neglect in America, until her triumphant rediscovery in the 1970s when her portraits gained iconic status and world-wide popularity.
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- Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti, 1929
- The Chinese Man, c. 1921
- The Sleeping Girl, 1923
- Two Little Girls with Ribbons, 1925
- Sharing Secrets, 1928
- The Slave, 1929
- The Straw Hat, 1930
- Mother and Child, 1931
- Beggar with Mandolin, 1935
- Saint Anthony, c. 1936
- The Peasant Man, c. 1937
- Quattrocento, 1937
- Graziella, c. 1937
- Peasant Girl with Pitcher, c. 1937
- Madonna, c. 1937
- Suzanne Bathing, c. 1938
- Still Life with Arums and Mirror, c. 1938
- Young Lady with Crossed Arms, 1939
- At the Opera, 1941
- Succulent and Flask, c. 1941
- The Seashell, 1941
- Still Life, Lemons and Plate, c. 1942
- The Rose Hat, c. 1944
- Redheaded Girl and Garland of Roses, c. 1944
- The Orange Turban II, c. 1945
- Amethyst, 1946
- Still Life with Apples and Lemons, c. 1946
- The Key, c. 1946