Tamara de Lempicka | |
|---|---|
Tamara Łempicka | |
 Lempicka's bust in Kielce, Poland | |
| Born | Tamara Rozalia Gurwik-Górska 16 June 1894 |
| Died | 18 March 1980 (aged 85) |
| Education | Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris |
| Notable work | The Dream (1927) Self-portrait, Tamara in a Green Bugatti (1929) The Musician (1929) Adam and Eve (1932) |
| Style | Art Deco |
| Spouses | Tadeusz Łempicki
(m. 1916; div. 1931)Raoul Kuffner de Diószegh
(m. 1934; died 1961) |
| Children | Maria Krystyna 'Kizette' Łempicka Foxhall (daughter) (ca. 1919–2001) |
| Relatives | Adrienne Górska, architect (sister) |
| Website | www |
Tamara Łempicka (pronounced [taˈmara wɛmˈpit͡ska] ; 16 June 1894 – 18 March 1980),[1][2][3] known outside Poland as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.
Born in Warsaw, records have long asserted her birthname was Tamara Rozalia Gurwik-Górska,[4] though documents have uncovered her true name as Tamara Rosa Hurwitz.[5][6][7] She briefly moved to Saint Petersburg where she married Tadeusz Łempicki, a prominent Polish lawyer, then travelled to Paris. She studied painting with Maurice Denis and André Lhote. Her style was a blend of late, refined cubism and the neoclassical style, particularly inspired by the work of Jean-Dominique Ingres.[8] She was an active participant in the artistic and social life of Paris between the wars. In 1928, she became the mistress of Baron Raoul Kuffner, a wealthy art collector from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, divorcing Tadeusz Łempicki that same year. After the death of Kuffner's wife in 1933, Łempicka married Kuffner in 1934, and thereafter she became known in the press as "The Baroness with a Brush".
Following the outbreak of World War II in 1939, she and her husband moved to the United States and she painted celebrity portraits, as well as still lifes and, in the 1960s, some abstract paintings. Her work was out of fashion after World War II, but made a comeback in the late 1960s, with the rediscovery of Art Deco. She moved to Mexico in 1974, where she died in 1980. At her request, her ashes were scattered over the Popocatépetl volcano.
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- ^ Soru, Marianna (4 February 2024). "Julie Rubio, intervista alla regista di Tamara de Lempicka". Metropolitan Magazine (in Italian). Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ "Gioia Mori, cade l'ultimo mistero di Tamara de Lempicka - Arte - Ansa.it". Agenzia ANSA (in Italian). 27 January 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ "Tamara's Life". Tamara de Lempicka (in German). Retrieved 3 August 2024.
- ^ Her full name according to Claridge (1999), p. 10; and Mori (2011), p. 22. Biographies by De Lempicka-Foxhall & Phillips (1987), Néret (2000), Blondel, Brugger, and Gronberg (2004), and Bade (2006) also give her birth name as Tamara; some other sources say her birth name was Maria (e.g., Helena Reckitt, The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857–2017, 2018, p. 84.
- ^ Soru, Marianna (4 February 2024). "Julie Rubio, intervista alla regista di Tamara de Lempicka". Metropolitan Magazine (in Italian). Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ "Gioia Mori, cade l'ultimo mistero di Tamara de Lempicka - Arte - Ansa.it". Agenzia ANSA (in Italian). 27 January 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ "Meet Julie Rubio, President of Women in Film and Director/Producer of 'The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & The Art of Survival'". The Mamahood. 18 November 2023. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ Néret (2016), pp. 27–31.