Description

Tamara de lempicka was a colorful personality.
Painter by day and femme fatale by night, the
decadent polish artist became a veritable icon
of the interwar period; Both she and her work
have become symbols of their era. She studied
in paris under andré lhote, who had a decisive
influence on her work, as did the italian
masters of the renaissance. Tamara de lempicka
sought to achieve a distinctive style, so that
"amid a hundred others, one of my paintings
should stand out at first glance." And she achieved
her goal, developing a unique sculptural style.
The artist's nude studies and equivocal portraits
brought her fame in paris, where the sensuality
and eroticism of her paintings earned her
the sobriquet "ingres perverse." She became
the painter par excellence of the fashionable
society of the jazz age, before leaving europe
on the eve of the war for the united states,
where she would conquer new york and
hollywood. This book-the catalogue for the
first exhibition devoted to the artist in france-reveals
the mystique of tamara de lempicka, who
encompasses at once artist, woman, and legend.