THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY — UPDATED & UNABRIDGED
COMING FALL 2024
With an introduction by Laura Claridge and a preface by the Lempicka family
Tamara de Lempicka
A Life of Deco and Decadence
An icon of the Jazz Age, Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka lived a life well worth recording. Until now, however, no one has written the story of this woman of extraordinary talent and notoriety. She was a great beauty, an aristocratic refugee of the Russian Revolution, and a frankly erotic painter who insisted upon Renaissance aesthetics, figuration, and painterly craft in modern art.
The sky-high prices attached to her canvases in recent years have still not dispelled the suspicions that a woman of Lempicka’s glamour and fame could be a truly serious artist. Yet the reviews of the early twentieth century tell a different story: her work was routinely singled out as competing with major figures of the School of Paris, including Léger, Laurençin, Kisling, and Picasso.
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