Quite amazing how artist captures the essence of the Art Moderne movement. Tamara was a glamorous Lady that saw little of her own daughter. I will be giving a much larger bio then usual for this artist for she epitomized the Art Deco Era and if by Lempicka you would want to have this. There are 2 old patches and nobody TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE was reproducing Lempica’s work in the 1920s aLSO THERE IS LITTLE DOUBT THAT THIS PAINTING IS AN OLD WORK so I believe this work is should be researched and that it possible came from the artist signed on this work but without an experts written page sheet I cannot offer a Guarantee and in fact this could have been a forgery I do not know that it was done by the hands of Lempicka. The painting is signed and dated 1925 the same year Lempicka. Painted her iconic work. (Tamara in the Green Bugatti) for the cover of the German fashion magazine. Attributed and not guaranteed, If I. Were to Guarantee this work the listed price would be over 500 thousand dollars so please do your homework, your research on this painting. Either way it’s a. Winner and easily worth the amount placed. The canvas size is 20″ by 28.5″ and the work comes framed. This could really be a SUPER Home Run very easily if you follow my logic stream, again I implore you to do your research. LEMPICKA’S WORKS ARE CONSIDERED TO BE THE ZENITH OF THE DECO. This biography from the Archives of AskART. Tamara de Lempicka, described as the first woman artist to be a glamour star, is known for her Art Deco-styled portraits of sexy, bedroom-eyed women in stylish dress and haunting poses. Her clear, strong style, sometimes called Soft Cubism, earned her a place at the top of the Art-Deco movement. Her life is a dramatic story itself. Married twice to wealthy men, she moved from her native Poland to Russia, and then to Paris. In 1918, she studied painting at the Academe de la Grand Chaumiere, and was privately tutored by Maurice Denis. In 1925, she exhibited her works at the first Art Deco show in Paris. She had been born into a wealthy and prominent family; her father was Boris Gurwik-Górski, a Polish lawyer; and her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Polish socialite. Maria was the middle child with two siblings. She attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and spent the winter of 1911 with her grandmother in Italy and on the French Riviera, where she was treated to her first taste of the Great Masters of Italian painting. In 1912, her parents divorced and Maria went to live with her wealthy Aunt Stefa in St. When her mother remarried, she became determined to break away to a life of her own. In 1913, at the age of fifteen, while attending the opera, Maria spotted the man she became determined to marry. She promoted her campaign through her well-connected uncle, and in 1916 she married Tadeusz Lempicki (18881951) in St. Petersburga well-known ladies’ man, gadabout, and lawyer by title, who was tempted by the significant dowry. A year later, the Bolsheviks arrested Taduesz. Although only seventeen years old, Tamara pleaded for and ultimately secured her husband’s release. The Lempickis fled to Paris, where her family had also taken refuge, and there she became known as Tamara de Lempicka. However, there was domestic strain because Tadeusz proved either unwilling or unable to find suitable work. In Paris, she studied art and became a much sought after portrait painter with a distinctive bold style that epitomizes the cool modernism of Art Deco. Between the wars, she painted portraits of writers, entertainers, artists, scientists, industrialists, and many of Eastern Europe’s exiled nobility. Her daughter, Kizette de Lempica-Foxhall, wrote in her biography of her mother: She painted them all, the rich, the successful, the renowned -the best. And with many she also slept. Tamara’s work brought her critical acclaim, social celebrity and considerable wealth. Through her network of friends, she was able to display her paintings in the most elite salons of the era. De Lempicka was criticized and admired for her’perverse Ingrism’, referring to her modern restatement of the master Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, as displayed in her work Group of Four Nudes , 1925. In 1925, she painted her iconic work Auto-Portrait (Tamara in the Green Bugatti) for the cover of the German fashion magazine Die Dame. As summed up by the magazine Auto-Journal in 1974, the self-portrait of Tamara de Lempicka is a real image of the independent woman who asserts herself. Her hands are gloved, she is helmeted, and inaccessible; a cold and disturbing beauty [through which] pierces a formidable beingthis woman is free! De Lempicka won her first major award in 1927, first prize at the Exposition Internationale de Beaux Arts in Bordeaux, France for her portrait of Kizette on the Balcony. During the Roaring 20s Paris, Tamara de Lempicka was very much a part of the bohemian life: she knew Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and André Gide. Famous for her libido, she was bisexual, and her affairs with both men and women were carried out in ways that were scandalous at the time. She often used formal and narrative elements in her portraits and nude studies to produce overpowering effects of desire and seduction. Her husband eventually tired of their arrangement and abandoned her in 1927. They were divorced in 1931 in Paris. Obsessed with her work and her social life, de Lempicka neglected more than her husband; she rarely saw her daughter. When Kizette was not away at boarding school (France or England), the girl was often with her grandmother Malvina. When de Lempicka informed her mother and daughter that she would not be returning from America for Christmas in 1929, Malvina was so angry that she burned de Lempicka’s enormous collection of designer hats; Kizette watched them burn, one by one. Kizette was neglected, but also immortalized. De Lempicka painted her only child repeatedly, leaving a striking portrait series: Kizette in Pink , 1926; Kizette on the Balcony , 1927; Kizette Sleeping , 1934; Portrait of Baroness Kizette , 1954-5, etc. In other paintings, the women depicted tend to resemble Kizette. In 1928, her longtime patron the Baron Raoul Kuffner von Diószeg (18861961) visited her studio and commissioned her to paint his mistress. De Lempicka finished the portrait, then took the mistress’ place in the Baron’s life. She traveled to the United States for the first time in 1929, to paint a commissioned portrait for Rufus Bush and to arrange a show of her work at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. De Lempicka continued both her heavy workload and her frenetic social life through the next decade. The Great Depression had little effect on her; in the early 1930s she was painting King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Queen Elizabeth of Greece. Museums began to collect her works. In 1933 she traveled to Chicago where she worked with Georgia O’Keeffe, Santiago MartÃnez Delgado and Willem de Kooning. Her social position was cemented when she married her lover, Baron Kuffner, on 3 February 1934 in Zurich (his wife had died the year before). The Baron took her out of her quasi-bohemian life and finally secured her place in high society again, with a title to boot. She saw the coming of World War II from a long way off, much sooner than most of her contemporaries. She did make a few concessions to the changing times as the decade passed; her art featured a few refugees and common people, and even a Christian saint or two, as well as the usual aristocrats and cold nudes. In the winter of 1939, Tamara and the Baron started an “extended vacation” in the United States. She immediately arranged for a show of her work in New York, though the Baron and Baroness chose to settle in Beverly Hills, California, living in the former residence of Hollywood director King Vidor. She became’the baroness with a brush’ and a favorite artist of Hollywood stars. She cultivated a Garboesque manner. The Baroness would visit the Hollywood stars on their studio sets, such as Tyrone Power, Walter Pidgeon, and George Sanders and they would come to her studio to see her at work. She did war relief work, like many others at the time; and she managed to get Kizette out of Nazi-occupied Paris, via Lisbon, in 1941. Some of her paintings of this time had a Salvador Dalà quality, as displayed in Key and Hand, 1941. In 1943, the couple relocated to New York City. Even though she continued to live in style, socializing continuously, her popularity as a society painter had diminished greatly. They traveled to Europe frequently to visit fashionable spas and so that the Baron could attend to Hungarian refugee work. Yet eventually she adopted a new style, using palette knife instead of brushes. Her new work was not well-received when she exhibited in 1962 at the Iolas Gallery. After the Baron’s death in 1962 from a heart attack on the ocean liner, Liberte , she moved to Houston to be near her daughter, Kizette, who was married to Harold Foxhall, Chief Geologist for the Dow Chemical Company. She began painting in a new style with a palette knife rather than a brush. These paintings were not well received, and she swore she would never exhibit her work again. However, others later exhibited her work and she continued to paint, storing her canvases, new and old, in an attic and a warehouse. Kizette served as her business manager, social secretary and factotum, but was ill treated and much affected by her mother’s controlling personality. In 1966, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs mounted a commemorative exhibition in Paris called “Les Annees’25”. Its success created the first serious interest in Art Deco. This inspired a young man named Alain Blondel to open the Galerie du Luxembourg and launch a major retrospective of Tamara de Lempicka. Her work was a revelation in the art world. Gradually, as Art Deco and figurative painting came into favor again, Tamara was rediscovered by the art world. Tamara de Lempicka died in her sleep on March 18, 1980 with her daughter Kizette at her side. Kizette, whose husband had died, attended her mother for the last three months, and according to her mother’s wishes, scattered her ashes on the top of the volcano Popocatepetl. American singer-songwriter and actress Madonna is now a huge fan and collector of her work. She has lent out her paintings to events and museums. Madonna has also featured Lempicka’s artwork in her music videos for “Open Your Heart” (1987), “Express Yourself” (1989), “Vogue” (1990) and “Drowned World/Substitute for Love” (1998). She also used her paintings on the sets of her 1987 Who’s That Girl and 1990 Blond Ambition world tours. Other famous collectors include actor Jack Nicholson and singer-actress Barbra Streisand. International Museum collections include Centre National d´Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou en ParÃs, Musée d´Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, Métropole Musée d´Art et d´Historie de Saint-Denis, Musée d´Art et d´Industrie André Diligent in Roubaix, Musée Departémental de l´Oise in Beauvais, Musée des Années 30 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, Musée Malraux in Le Havre, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie in Warsaw. The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California. The artist was born Tamara Gorska in Warsaw around the turn of the century, the precise date is uncertain. She summered in St. Petersburg and married a well-to-do Russian lawyer, Tadeusz de Lempicki in 1916. Two years later the couple fled the Bolshevik Revolution for Paris. There they moved into the circle of exiled Russian nobility and other out-of-work aristocrats. It was there that De Lempicka took up painting. The teacher who had the greatest influence on her was Andre L Hote, who sought to apply the principles of Cubism in traditional subjects such as landscapes, nudes and portraits. Seriously ambitious in her art, tall blond De Lempicka managed to turn her headlong lifestyle into a business asset. Her notoriety attracted clients, clients became patrons, and lovers. And there were countless lovers, male and female. The Lempickis had one daughter, Kizette, who was later to co-author a biography of her. Tadeusz de Lempicki divorced her in 1928. She painted a portrait of him that year, leaving unfinished the left hand which would have carried the wedding band. In 1933 she married Baron Raoul Kuffner on the understanding that she could continue to live as she pleased. De Lempicka flourished through the Depression, but in 1939, she and Kuffner left for the United States, eventually landing in Beverly Hills. Her reputation faded; they moved to New York, then Houston and finally Cuernavaca, Mexico. She died there in 1980. Art scholars and critics are divided on De Lempicka. Many regard her as an artist who merely reflected her times rather than helped to define them. Her best work has been described as striking and seductive; her late work barely this side of paintings on black velvet. Sources include: Craig Turner in the LA Times , September 23, 1994 Peter Plagens with Yahlin Chang in Newsweek , July 4, 1994 From the Internet: Electric Library. Biography from National Museum of Women in the Arts. As a leading portraitist of the Art Deco movement in the 1920s through the 1930s, Tamara de Lempicka is truly a force representing womens contribution to art. Her strong will, extraordinary life, and drive for all things avant-garde kept her in the spotlight for most of her life. Lempickas technique was elegant and precise, echoing aspects of Cubism, Futurism, and the Bauhaus. Some of her most famous paintings include, Autoportrait , painted in 1929 and Andromeda , painted in 1927, a likeness of the infamous Greek princess. Born into a wealthy family as Maria Górska in Warsaw in 1898, Lempicka attended boarding school in Switzerland. In 1911, she took an extended trip to Italy and the French Riviera with her grandmother, who introduced her to museums and the great Italian Masters. In 1912, her parents divorced and Lempicka relocated to St. Petersburg where she attended St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts and was trained in various styles. As a young beautiful woman, Lempicka attracted many suitors, including Count Tadeusz de Lempicka, who she married at the age of 18. At the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution, the Count was arrested and Lempicka, after several weeks, was able to secure his escape. The couple fled with their young daughter to Paris. It was in Paris where Lempicka began her career in the arts and established her socialite status. Not long after arriving in Paris, Lempicka continued to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière under the tutelage of André Lhote, a cubist artist of the time. Her first solo show was in Milan in 1925, where she completed twenty-eight paintings in a six month period. Famous for her libido, Lempicka was bisexual and often had scandalous affairs. Her paintings were a mirror for her sexual escapades, reflecting the cool, sensual side of the Art Deco movement. Her activities and neglect for her family led to her divorce in 1928. Kizette, her young daughter, was the subject of many of her paintings during her lifetime, even though they had a strained relationship. In 1929, Lempicka painted Autoportrait for the German fashion magazine, Die Dame. The painting became synonymous with the image of the confident, independent woman of the 1930s. Shortly thereafter, Lempicka became involved with longtime patron Baron Raoul Kuffner, traveling to America with him to show at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. The couple married in 1933 and relocated to Beverly Hills, CA in 1939, settling into a Garbo-esque lifestyle. She continued to paint throughout WWII in her signature style, yet her work became more abstract, and she replaced a brush with a palette knife as the years progressed. Lempicka exhibited new paintings for the last time in 1962, the same year her husband died, and vowed to never paint again as the show was not well received. She moved to Texas to be with her daughter and her presence in the art world was overlooked until her 1972 retrospective at the Galerie du Luxembourg. This exhibition brought a resurgence of her work to the public and her return to painting personally. Lempicka spent her final years in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she died in 1980. Her personality and impact on the history of womens art has yet to be forgotten and her paintings of the 1920s and 30s are an unmistakable example of the sleek, stylistic forms of the Art Deco movement. Une Jeune Fille Bretonne, painted in 1975, is part of NMWAs collection and showcases the more abstract style of Lempickas late career. Written by Ali Printz, an intern in the Library and Research Center at NMWA PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO GUARANTEE ON THIS WORK. MOTHER WITH CHILD THE OWNER CLAIMS ATTRIBUTION TO Tamara de Lempicka I CAN CLAIM NO MORE THEN THAT ON THIS WORK. Pl ease see my current offerings. Then bookmark that page by clicking on the favorites list.. I try to sell only the rare the Beautiful and the Unusual. Check out my other items. Be sure to add me to your favorites list. Is not applicable on this Work. By the hand of the artist listed…. Along with a signed written statement from a professionally recognized and or qualified authority on the artist on the experts letter head. Letter to state the art work described in the listing is not. Paintings Attributed to an artist. In the Manner of an artist. “Studio of” an artist “School of” an artist. “Followers of ” an artist & “After” an artist. Are covered with a condition guarantee only and not an authenticity Guarantee. Venue for resolution of any legal dispute is NYC New York. The item “MOTHER & CHILD OIL PAINTING OIL ON CANVAS 20 X 28.5 SIGNED TAMARA LEMPICKA” is in sale since Tuesday, June 27, 2017. This item is in the category “Art\Paintings”. The seller is “naruko” and is located in New York, New York. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Original/Reproduction: Unknown
- Listed By: Broker for owner
- Signed?: Signed
- Medium: #11459 Oil ON CANVAS eoss
- Subject: Mother & Child SIGNED & DTD 1925
- Style: Art Deco style
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: approx 20″ by 28.5″
- Date of Creation: 1900-1949
- Region of Origin: Europe
- Artist: SIGNED & ATTRIBUTED TAMARA LEMPICKA
