Tamara de Lempicka
By: Gioia Mori, [curator and text]
Contributors: Mori, Gioia, 1956- writer of text, curator; Palazzo Chiablese
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9788866482574
Subjects: Russian Painting; Art deco; Exhibitions
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).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition Tamara de Lempicka, Turin, Palazzo Chiablese, 19 March -30 August, 2015.

Contains bibliographical references (page 286).