Tamara de Lempicka

[dhermann1]

I just discovered this wonderful Art Deco artist. Her work, or at least her style, will be familiar to most of you. Great stuff.
http://www.paloma.ca/gallery.html
http://www.mystudios.com/women/klmno/lempicka.html
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-26153/lempica.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_de_Lempicka

 

[Doctor Strange]

I'm a longtime fan of her work. Another nice gallery:

http://cgfa.floridaimaging.com/lempicka/index.html

 

[JEEP]

Incredible artist!

I didn't know about her untill just now. To bad I have already filled my walls - I think I need to make room for a couple of prints

Thanks for sharing this.


/Jakob

 

[DecoDahlia]

In the 1980's here in Los Angeles, there was a really interesting "interactive" play based on Tamara de Lempicka's life, held in The American Legion Headquarters in Hollywood. Scenes from de Lempicka's life would be staged in different rooms, so you'd visit the rooms of your choice and "eavesdrop" on the goings on, thus, each group of people got a different "story," since this play didn't have an actual plot; it was more a "day-in-the-life-of" situation. Upon entering The American Legion building, you'd receive a "passport," as this play occurred in an "Italian Villa," so they had this great actor playing the role of an Italian Fascist official circa the 1920's. I heard there was, or was supposed to be, a film project about Tamara de Lempicka's life.

 

[BakingInPearls]

While I was in London there was an exhibition of her works at a local museum, so I decided to stop by. They are more gorgeous in person then anyone can imagine, if they ever exhibit her again I will be first in line.

 

[HadleyH]

Not only participant of The Jazz Age but also one of the most important artists of the Art Deco style. Thanks for posting dhermann1!

I like this one... "Self Portrait in green Bugatti" (1925)

 

[MissS]

Oh, I love her work! The colours, the sharpness of the images, the expressions....

 

[Dr Doran]

I have loved her forever. She was Polish, and they still remember her in Poland and many average Poles know biographical details about her. My sister in law (also Polish) has done a version of the painting of the woman driving. I have playing cards with Lempicka pictures on the back.

Some CDs of Astor Piazzola, the master of Nuevo Tango, have Lempicka paintings on the covers.

 

[PADDY]

At home.

Portrait of Madam Allan Bott.
http://www.lilithgallery.com/arthistory/artdeco/Tamara-De-Lempicka.html

 

[Richard Warren]

This is pretty interesting stuff. On the surface it looks like bourgeois cubism, but it really seems that something deeper is going on. The sexual ambiguity is pronounced but not necessarily celebrated. It also sort of like an anti-social realism.

Makes you wonder why the bookstores are full of books about Frida Kahlo and not this women.

 

[Chas]

I have a painted copy of Adam & Eve in the living room. A favorite possesion.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"I am currently displaying this in the Dinning room"

"Entrance Hall"

" Sitting Room"

I Frame them all in a simple Walnut frame

"Study"

 

[Smuterella]

I have La Dormeuse above the bed, appropriately.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I see the address I posted back at the start of this thread has changed. It's now at http://cgfa.acropolisinc.com/lempicka/index.html

 

[The Wolf]

I'm a big fan also.
Her self portrait in a Bugatti was adapted in an episode of "The Flash" tv series and a redone version of Portrait of a Man in an Overcoat was in an episode of "Doctor Who".
Thanks for reminding me of her work.

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[swinggal]

I have always loved her also. She was known as 'The Countess with the Paintbrush'. I have many favourites of hers. She was quite an elegant woman herself too.

St. Mortitz (1929) is one of my favs because the the balance of the red sweater againts the white snow. Can't help it...juts be being a designer

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Madonna Owns four Lempickas, some of which are in her Manhattan apartment decorated by her Brother Chris"