Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara de Lempicka , born Maria Gorska the May 16th 1898, with Warsaw, in Poland, and deceased on March 18th, 1980 with Cuernavaca, the Mexico.

It is the most famous painter of the period Art déco. Brilliant, beautiful and daring, unclassable, mysterious and contradictory, it made its life a succession of very elaborate settings in scene. She preaches the luxury and modernity. She liked before all the women but she married twice.

Biography

Girl of a lawyer, it evolves/moves in a medium more than easy between Saint-Pétersbourg and the big cities of European water. In 1914, it settles in Saint-Pétersbourg to learn painting. It éprend of Tadeusz Lempicki, a young Russian lawyer whom it marries in 1916. The Révolution of October upsets its life and after a stay with Copenhagen it gains Paris. Her husband badly supports to have lost his privileged life and refuses to work. The couple beats wing. Tamara decides to start a career of painter.

In 1920, with the Academy of the Large Thatched cottage, it receives the teaching of Maurice Denis and André Lhote. As many impassioned by the cubism than by painting Ingres or that of Pontormo which it leaves to copy works in Italy, Tamara has its style with it, all at the same time decorative, elegant and sculptural, as of 1922, date on which it presents a portrait to the living room of Fall. Success does not delay and the painter immortalise the Bohemian Parisian one of its time: Andre Gide, Suzy Solidor, of industrial rich person, the emigrated Russian princes, etc It attends Paul Poiret or Georges Braque.

Paintings of Tamara de Lempicka curl the scandal regularly: its female characters are often garçonnes , its environments sometimes ambiguities. It is a night-bird attending the Parisian cabarets assiduously where it plays the part of a femme fatale in great pageantry. This large fashionable is in fact a large mystic with the double personality and the double life.

She divorces in 1928 for remarier, in 1933, with the baron Raoul Kuffner (deceased in 1962). This new social change of status will make him lose sight of the fact the artistic world of the time as much with personal capacity that in its work. Fleeing the war, it settles with the the United States. Post-war periods, its work fall into a deep lapse of memory until the fashion Art déco, in the Années 1970, makes re-appear its name.

The actor Jack Nicholson and the singer Madonna are collectors as of his tableux ones, Madonna with aillor immortalized his work in his video clip " Vogue " paying homage to the style Art déco like in the clip " Open Your Heart " with the fabric " Andromède" (the Slave).

Its work

Tamara de Lempicka is undoubtedly not a major artist of the 20th century: its plethoric production and far too homogeneous lack of masterpieces, it before will have very marked the history of painting by a recognizable between all, charming, a little smooth style and completely in phase with these mad years of the inter-war period which was rained, by it, to look at itself living.

Its portraits are characterized by interrogative and sensual glances, a pulpy mouth for the women and pinch for the men, the folded up hands, of the bright colors, violent, more development by gray funds even. In the forms where the influence of the cubism shows through she never hesitates in her eternal research of the déconstruction/rebuilding to use until excess the pictorial processes which give an impression of stylization.

Works

List nonexhautive

  • Portrait of Kizette , (1924)

  • the Model , (1925)
  • Naked sitted , (1925)
  • Naked wide , (1925)
  • Portrait of the Duchess of the Room , (1925), Gallery of Luxembourg
  • Portrait of the Marquis d' Afflitto , (1925)
  • Portrait of the Marquis Sommi , (1925)
  • Portrait of the Prince Eristoff , (1925)
  • Slavic Head of woman , (1925)
  • Beautiful Rafaela , (1927), private collection
  • Andromède connected (1927-1928), private collection
  • Spring , (1928)
  • Portrait of Tadeuz de Lempicki (1928), Paris, National museum of modern art
  • Portrait of Arlette Boucard (1928)
  • First communicant , (1929)
  • Self-portrait in green car , (1929)
  • Naked with buildings , (1930)
  • deadened Woman , (1930)
  • Portrait of Mrs. Alan Bott , (1930)
  • Portrait of Mrs Mr. , (1930)
  • Naked with veils , (1931)
  • Young girl in green , (1931)
  • Dormeuse , (1931-1932)
  • Adam and Eve (1932), Geneva, Museum of modern art
  • Portrait of Suzi Solidor , (1933), Cagnes, Castle-museum
  • the pink Shirt , (1933)
  • Dormeuse (1934)
  • deadened Woman , (1935)
  • Mother Superior (1939)
  • Amethyst (1946)

  • Two friends (1923)

  • Heat of summer
  • Woman with the green eyes
  • Women bathing
  • Bunches of grapes
  • Idylle
  • white Irises
  • Young girl with the dove
  • Young girl with the window
  • Young girl on the balcony
  • Kizette pink
  • Lady in blue with guitar
  • Lady in yellow
  • the Girls
  • Mask, feather and charts
  • Portrait of Will go P.
  • Portrait of Mrs Boucard
  • Portrait of Marjorie Ferry
  • Portrait of Thousand
  • Portrait of Chick of Herrera
  • Portrait of the Large duke Gabriel
  • Four naked
  • Saint-Moritz
  • orange Turban
  • green Turban

Quotations

Exposures

  • In 1961, exposure of the Ror-Volmar gallery, in Paris, with about fifty fabrics of 1925 to 1935.
  • In 1972, exposure of the gallery Alain Blondel, in Paris.
  • From June in July 2006, retrospective of works of the artist to the museum of the Thirties of Boulogne. Catalog coedity by Flammarion and the museum.

External bonds

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