Tamara lempicka

“There are no miracles, there is only what you make.. #TamaradeLempicka #InternationalWomensDay”

Tamara de Lempicka’s paintings were aggressively modern-looking, and their appeal to the new social elite of her day was no doubt due in large part to their proud and glowing sensuality, in which physical beauty was emblematic of purposeful self-confidence, personal empowerment and success. The urbane and coolly polished surfaces in her pictures mirrored the social ideals of this well-heeled and influential class, which did not hesitate to pursue its passions, but had the good taste to…

Tamara De Lempicka was the art deco painter whose work transcended her time – here’s why

TAMARA de Lempicka thrilled the world in the 1920s and 30s with her bold and inventive works of art and earned the nickname “The Baroness with a Brush”. A Google Doodle is celebrating t…

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Artist Matches Model To Painting, Tamara de Lempicka (Baroness Kuffner) and Miss Cecelia Meyers with the painting Suzanne au Bain / May 14, 1940 / Beverly Hills, CA “I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don’t apply to those who live on the fringe.” In Tamara de Lempicka’s

Tamara de Lempicka, Beverly Hills, March 1940

[Christie’s, London - Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm]

“"Portrait of Romana de La Salle" by Tamara de Lempicka 1928”

Oil on canvas. Tamara de Lempicka (aka Maria Gorska) was a Polish painter known for the “soft cubism” by which she epitomized the sensual side of the Art Deco movement (her renderings of stylishly sexy, bedroom-eyed women remain unmatched to this day). Tamara attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland before moving to St. Petersburg, Russia (where she experienced the Bolshevik Revolution)— then on to her own bohemian twenties in Paris during the Roaring 20s, where she quickly became…