Contributions

  • Mori, Gioia, 1956- writer of text, curator - Contributor
  • Palazzo Chiablese - Contributor

Publication

2015 - , Italy

Language

English

Word Count

79,250 words, Guess

Page Count

317 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC759.13
  • LCCND955.P63 A4 2015
  • LCCND955.P63 L452 2015

Description

An aura of mystery has surrounded Tamara de Lempicka since she was born, not in Warsaw in 1902, as she claimed, but according to official records in 1898 in Moscow. The beautiful and scandalous Tamara was the extravagant muse of Art Deco, an icon of the roaring twenties, and a successful painter of intensely sensual portraits that were powerfully sculptural with Cubist lines, embellished with sophisticated decorative elements. Cool colours, cramped spaces and stark contrasts between light and shade surround the unforgettable faces of rich, elegant, emancipated, and theatrical women fixed in their existential melancholy. The catalogue includes a careful selection of unforgettable paintings and valuable historic photographs offering us a fascinating thematic reconstruction of the personal and professional aspects of Tamara's life, including the places she lived, her involvement in the sophisticated fashion world of the period, and her studies of the nude, as well as her still-lifes and portraits.00Exhibition: Verona, Palazzo Forti, Italy (19.09.2015-31.01.2015).

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