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Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence book by Laura Claridge

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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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

“Lucid and interesting account of Lempicka’s life.” 

NEW YORK TIMES

“The definitive round-up of de Lempicka’s ramshackle but riveting life.”

SUNDAY TIMES (LONDON)

“Laura Claridge has discovered a lot more than anyone else about this indisputably remarkable woman.” 

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BOOKS

TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
A LIFE OF DECO AND DECADENCE

THE LADY WITH THE BORZOI
BLANCHE KNOPF: LITERARY TASTEMAKER EXTRAORDINAIRE

The black and white cover for the book Norman Rockwell: A Life by Laura Claridge

NORMAN ROCKWELL
A LIFE

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LAURA CLARIDGE

Laura Claridge is the award-winning author of biographies of the painters Tamara de Lempicka and Norman Rockwell, as well as books on British Romanticism, Modernism, gender, and psychoanalytic theory.

Her work has been featured in The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor and has appeared frequently in the national media, including Today, CNN, NPR, and the BBC.

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