Tamara de Lempicka

(1898-1980)

Born in Warsaw. Poland to wealthy parents. With her husband she emigrated to Paris in 1918. Tamara de Lempicka exhibited at the Art Deco exhibition in 1925. With new husband, Baron Raoul Kuffner, Lempicka moved to the US in 1939 where she continued oil painting but in a more abstract style than her earlier stylized nudes.

Tamara de Lempicka’s famous oil paintings include:

• The Two Friends
• Beautiful Rafaela
• Andomeda
• Lady in Blue with Guitar
• Portrait of Nana de Herrara
• Portrait of Mde Boucard
• Calla Lily
• Amethyst