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Top 10 Interesting facts about Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara 艁empicka was born on 16 May 1898 as Tamara Rosalia Gurwik-G贸rska. She died on 18 March 1980. Tamara was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.

Born in Warsaw, Lempicka briefly moved to Saint Petersburg where she married Tadeusz 艁empicki, a prominent Polish lawyer, and then travelled to Paris. She studied painting with Maurice Denis and Andr茅 Lhote. In the article are the top ten interesting facts about.

1. She was a mistress of Raoul Kuffner before marrying him

Tamara 艁empicka acquired the name 艁empicka from her first husband Tadeusz 艁empicki, a prominent Polish lawyer who lived in Saint Petersburg. She was an active participant in the artistic and social life of Paris between the wars.

In 1928 she became the mistress of Baron Raoul Kuffner, a wealthy art collector from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After her divorce from 艁empicki in 1931 and the death of his wife in 1933, Kuffner married Lempicka in 1934, and thereafter she became known in the press as “The Baroness with a Brush”.

2. She was born into a social and cultural elite family

Her father was Boris Gurwik-G贸rski, a Russian Jewish attorney for a French trading company, and her mother was Malwina Dekler, a Polish-Jewish socialite who had lived most of her life abroad and who met her husband at one of the European spas.

Tamara was raised in Warsaw by her mother and grandparents, Bernard and Klementyna Dekler, who were members of the social and cultural elite.

3. Was Tamara 艁empicka a good wife to Tadeusz 艁empicki?

Tamara divorced Tadeusz and married Raoul Kuffner. The direct cause of their divorce is never known. However, according to many incidences during the Russian Revolution, Tamara was a good wife though she used awful means to show her love to her husband.

The Russian Revolution in November 1917 overturned their comfortable life. In December 1917, Tadeusz 艁empicki was arrested in the middle of the night by the Cheka, the secret police.

Tamara searched the prisons for him, and with the help of the Swedish consul, to whom she offered her favours, she secured his release. They travelled to Copenhagen then to London and finally to Paris, where Tamara’s family had also found refuge.

4. When did Tamara start painting?

According to trusted sources, Tamara first painted when she was ten. This was when her mother commissioned a pastel portrait of her by a prominent local artist. She detested posing and was dissatisfied with the finished work. She took the pastels, had her younger sister pose, and made her first portrait.

Tamara developed her interest in art when her grandmother took her on a tour of Italy. However, Tamara started commercial painting when her husband Tadeusz proved unwilling or unable to find suitable work.

Their daughter, Maria Krystyna “Kizette”, was born around 1919 and therefore their financial needs were added. Lempicka decided to become a painter at her sister’s suggestion, and studied both at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts and Acad茅mie de la Grande Chaumi猫re with Maurice Denis and then with Andr茅 Lhote, who was to have a greater influence on her style.

Her first paintings were still lifes and portraits of her daughter Kizette and her neighbour. She sold her first paintings through the Galerie Colette-Weil, which allowed her to exhibit at the Salon des ind茅pendents, the Salon d’automne, and the Salon des moins de trente ans, for promising young painters. She exhibited at the Salon d’automne for the first time in 1922.

5. Tamara made her breakthrough in painting in 1925

In 1925, Tamara made her breakthrough in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, which later gave its name to the style of Art Deco. She exhibited her paintings in two of the major venues, the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des femmes peintres.

Her paintings were spotted by American journalists from Harper’s Bazaar and other fashion magazines, and her name became known. In the same year, she had her first major exposition in Milan, Italy, organized for her by Count Emmanuele Castelbarco. For this show, Lempicka painted 28 new works in six months.

6. Lempicka won her first major award in 1927

The portrait of Kizette on the Balcony won the first prize at the Exposition Internationale des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, France. In 1929, another portrait of Kizette, at her First Communion, won a bronze medal at the international exposition in Pozna艅, Poland. The portrait opened her career way and she was at her peak then because her portraits were in demand then.

7. She managed to push through during and post-World War II

In the winter of 1939, following the outbreak of World War II, Lempicka and her husband moved to the United States. They settled first in Los Angeles. The Paul Reinhard Gallery organized a show of her work, and they moved to Beverly Hills, settling into the former residence of the film director King Vidor.

Shows of her work were organized at the Julian Levy Gallery in New York, the Courvoisier Galleries in San Francisco, and the Milwaukee Institute of Art, but her shows did not have the success she had hoped for.

In the postwar years, she continued a frenetic social life, but she had fewer commissions for society portraits. Her art deco style looked anachronistic in the period of postwar modernism and abstract expressionism.

She expanded her subject matter to include still lifes, and in 1960 she began to paint abstract works and use a palette knife instead of her smooth earlier brushwork. She sometimes reworked earlier pieces in her new style. She had a show at the Ror Volmar Gallery in Paris in May and June 1961, but it did not revive her earlier success.

8. She was one of the best-known painters of the Art Deco style

The Art Deco style was a group which included Jean Dupas, Diego Rivera, Josep Maria Sert, Reginald Marsh, and Rockwell Kent, but unlike these artists, who often painted large murals with crowds of subjects, she focused almost exclusively on portraits.

Tamara described herself as the first woman to make clear paintings, and that was the origin of her success. She said that among a hundred canvases, hers were always recognizable and that the galleries tended to show her pictures in the best rooms because they attracted people… Her goal was to plagiarize but to create a new style, with luminous and brilliant colours, rediscover the elegance of my models.

9. Lempicka was bisexual

Her affairs with both men and women were conducted in ways that were considered scandalous at the time. She often used formal and narrative elements in her portraits, and her nude studies included themes of desire and seduction.

In the 1920s, she became closely associated with lesbian and bisexual women in writing and artistic circles, among them Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville-West, and Colette. She also became involved with Suzy Solidor, a nightclub singer at the Bo卯te de Nuit, whose portrait she later painted.

10. Tamara died a peaceful death

After retiring from professional painting, In 1974, she decided to move to Cuernavaca, Mexico. Aso, after the death of her husband in 1979, Kizette moved to Cuernavaca to take care of de Lempicka, whose health was declining.

De Lempicka died in her sleep on 18 March 1980. Following her wishes, her ashes were scattered over the volcano Popocat茅petl.