Tamara de Lempicka The Making of an Art Deco Icon

Tamara de Lempicka: The Making of an Art Deco Icon

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Oct 11, 2024
This short documentary opens a window into the life and art of the legendary Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka. Featuring interviews with curator Furio Rinaldi and the artist’s great-granddaughter, Marisa de Lempicka, as well as archival footage of the artist herself, this film traces Lempicka’s life and career, from her childhood in Russia to her burgeoning art career in Paris to how she became an Art Deco icon.

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About the exhibition:
With works that exuded cool elegance and transgressive sensuality, Tamara de Lempicka (1894–1980) helped define Art Deco. Her paintings captured the glamour and vitality of postwar Paris and the cosmopolitan sheen of Hollywood celebrity. This exhibition — the first major museum retrospective of Lempicka in the United States — explores the artist’s distinctive style and unconventional life through four major chapters. The more than 100 artworks on display range from her post-Cubist work in 1920s Paris to her most famous nudes and portraits to the melancholic still lifes and interiors of her final days in the United States and Mexico. Including an in-depth look at the artist’s drawings and studies, this exhibition reveals the creative process behind her iconic paintings.

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5 Things to Know about Art Deco Painter Tamara de Lempicka
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Tamara de Lempicka was the embodiment of the modern woman and a revolutionary painter — she was also a survivor. She had to pack up her life and flee twice in her lifetime, first to France during the Russian Revolution and then to America before the start of World War II. But it was these experiences that shaped the woman she would become: bold, independent, and a true original.

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