Tamara de Lempicka
Subtitle: a life of deco and decadence
By: Laura Claridge.
Contributors: Lempicka, Tamara de, 1898-1980.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: C. Potter
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: Lempicka, Tamara de, 1898-1980; Painters -- United States -- Biography
Description: "An icon of the Jazz Age, Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka lived a life well worth recording. 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."--BOOK JACKET.

"In this first critical biography, Laura Claridge draws upon her exclusive access to Lempicka's family, friends, and archives to re-create the life that the painter carefully withheld even from her own daughter: the truth of her birth; her escape from Bolshevik Russia; her determination to become a New Woman; her lifelong bouts of depression; her numerous affairs with the women and men she painted; her flight from Nazi Europe via Havana; and her years in Hollywood and New York as the "Baroness with a brush," all informed by the artistic integrity and social anachronism that condemned her to being written out of the canons of modern art."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-420) and index.