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A luxury album on the life and art of the Queen of Art Deco – Tamara de Lempicka. The artist owed her world-wide fame to her luminous portraits of well-known personalities. Since childhood, she was passionate about art, and she learned the tricks of the trade while visiting Europe’s key museums. She also loved modern objects and lived her life to the fullest. De Lempicka’s paintings fascinated with their magnificent colors, unique style, and sensuality of the figures, but over time, the painter’s works started to sink into oblivion. Years later, she returned triumphantly, yet again captivating wide audiences. Aside from top-quality painting reproductions, the album also contains sketches and photographs from the artist’s family archives, accompanied by texts by art historian Katarzyna Nowakowska-Sito as well as the artist’s granddaughter and great-granddaughter – Victoria de Lempicka and Marisa de Lempicka. Hardcover, 488 pages.
Tamara de Lempicka is recognized as one of the preeminent portrait painters of the Art Deco period, combining the classical figural style with the modern energy of the international avant-gardes. Through her own liberal lifestyle and bold pictorial technique, Lempicka captured the confidence, glamour, and effervescence of interwar Paris as well as the cosmopolitan sheen of Hollywood celebrity. Tamara de Lempicka will be on view at the de Young museum from October 12, 2024 through February 9, 2025.
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