Tamara de Lempicka
Polish painter (1898–1980) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tamara Łempicka (pronounced [taˈmara wɛmˈpit͡ska] ⓘ; born Tamara Rozalia Gurwik-Górska[1] [taˈmara rɔˈzalja ˈɡurviɡ ˈɡurska]; 16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980), better known 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.
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Tamara Łempicka | |
Born | Tamara Rozalia Gurwik-Górska (1898-05-16)16 May 1898 |
Died | 18 March 1980(1980-03-18) (aged 81) |
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) (1916–2001) |
Relatives | Adrienne Górska, architect (sister) |
Website | www |
Born in Warsaw, Gurwik-Górska 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.[2] 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. After her divorce from Tadeusz Łempicki in 1931 and 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.