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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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Publish dateMay 8, 2012
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1LEMPICKA
2INDEX
3Introduction
4Barry Friedman Ltd., New York.
5novel or movie.
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6Russian aristocrats, artists and intellectuals, often with hardly less colourful adventures than
7Private Collection.
8Gabo, Pevsner and Cocteau.
9overnight guest.
10Antoine Pevsner and, after 1933, Naum Gabo and Vassili Kandinsky.
11succession; Maurice Denis (1870-1943) and André Lhote (1885-1962).
12Barry Friedman Ltd., New York.
13Early Life
14Rhythm, 1924. Oil on canvas, 160 x 144 cm, Private Collection.
15notorious Turkish Bath.
16Puvis’ example. Denis’ fellow Nabi Eduard Vuillard (1868-
17Private Collection.
18Art Deco
19The Life
20French Symbolist painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes suffered from
21architects and designers such as Richard Riemerschmid and Peter
22more beautiful than the Winged Victory of Samothrace.” When
23The Futurist Manifesto stated “We wish to glorify war.” Certainly
24Private Collection, Paris.
25clean engine room of an ocean liner.
26urban traffic.
27The Life
28Spring, 1930. Oil on panel, 41 x 33 cm, Private Collection.
29De Lempicka understood, like any purveyor of soft-core pornography, that partial nudity
30such as Ingres and Gérôme.
31New York.
32Lempicka’s urban sophistication.
33Barry Friedman Ltd., New York.
34geometricised floral decoration so evident in the 1925 Paris exhibition. Nevertheless de
35sunbursts, electrification, mechanisation and transportation.”
36Lempicka - the abstracted, metallic forms and surfaces, the Manhatten back-drops and
37world of Haute Couture.
38Bugatti self-portrait.
39Private Collection.
40the metallic sheen of her white dress.
41Beauvais.
42brown or black.
43house-keeper and mistress Aelis Mazoyer.
44The Life
45Private Collection.
46of the silver screen.
47Page 97
48American Jazz.
49Fernand Leger, André Derain, Brancusi, Coco Chanel, the popular entertainers Mistinguett and
50a considerable fortune and extensive landed properties throughout the former Austro-
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