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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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GenreOther
Length2 hrs 14 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 1, 2011
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Lempicka
2Biography
3de Lempicka at his villa on the Italian coastline.
4Houston.
5Bouquet of Hortensias and Lemon
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6of the danger of Nazi Germany in a woman not usually
7The Fortune Teller
8The wilfulness of her temperament, apparent from an
9commissioning of a portrait of Tamara at the age of twelve
10Portrait of a Polo Player
111923 Oil on canvas, 70 x 58.5 cm Private Collection
12Seated Nude in Profile
13Knights of Malta in the recently re-named Petrograd in
14subsequent release and escape of her husband. Tamara
151923 Oil on canvas, 89 x 146 cm Private Collection
16From the turn of the century the political alliance
17of cultural links between the two countries. The great
18c. 1923 Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm Private Collection
19oriental orgy. Even in the late 1920s, photographs of
201923 Oil on canvas, 195 x 60.5 cm Private Collection
21of this grim situation and a desire for financial and personal
22c. 1924 Oil on panel, 46 x 38 cm Private Collection
23Portrait of Kizette
241924 Oil on canvas, 160 x 144 cm Private Collection
25Salon painting and the very different naturalism of the
26colours. However the firm linearity and smooth modelling of
271925 Oil on canvas, 37.8 x 54.5 cm Private Collection
28The modelling of the face in bold structural brush strokes
29shows an awareness of Cezanne that would undoubtedly
301925 Oil on canvas, 61 x 38 cm Private Collection
31More prophetic both stylistically and in subject matter
32against an urban back-drop, the element of cubist
33provocative, adulterous liaison between the calm solidity of
34shows virtually no interest in the individual psychology or
35Impressionists to a greater or lesser degree in the 1880s
361925 Oil on canvas, 65 x 92 cm Private Collection
37The “intense modernity” and “chilliness” of de Lempicka
381925 Oil on canvas, 81 x 130 cm Private Collection
39In the inter war period, the cult of the machine
401925 Oil on canvas, 162 x 97 cm Private Collection
41The smooth reflective surfaces of the Art Deco style that
421925 Oil on canvas, 100 x 73 cm Private Collection
43One of the most iconic images of the Jazz Age and
44painterly artists of the Belle Epoque.
451926 Oil on canvas, 116 x 73 cm Private Collection
46The relative acceptance of lesbianism in inter-war Paris
47Kizette on the Balcony
481927 Oil on canvas, 73 x 116 cm Private Collection
49second portrait, the serpentine pose and the way de
50— the Duchesse de La Salle and the model and night club
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