Tamara De Lempicka

Tamara Gorska was born around 1898 in Warsaw and married a Petrograd attorney, Tadeusz Lempicki. The couple moved to Paris in 1918 where Tamara began to study painting. She painted portraits of friends, her daughter Kizette and still lifes and made a name for herself as an Art Deco artist. Throughtout the 1920's her paintings are shown in galleries and sell very well. By 1933 she has divored Tadeusz and remarried Baron Raoul Kuffner, a collector of her works. They moved to the United States in 1939 where she had numerous solo exhibitions in museums and galleries. In the 1940's De Lempicka's artistic output declined and she experimented with Surrealism. By 1960 she had changed her style to Abstract Expressionism and executed paintings with a spatula. She died on March 18, 1980 in Cuernavaca, Mexico. De Lempicka's early paintings are considered quintessential of the Art Deco period providing a window into the fashionable society of the 1920's and 1930's.

Tamara De Lempicka Images:
Amethyste
Andromeda
Arlette Boucard
Autoportrait
Dormeuse
Dormeuse, 1934
Lady in Blue with Mandolin
Picture of a Man, Unfinished
Portrait de Madame Allen Botte
Portrait of a Young Girl in a Green Dress
Portrait Of Ira
Printemps
Tamara in the Green Bugatti
The Sleeper
Two Friends
Woman In Blue With Guitar
Woman With Dove
Woman With Green Eyes