Art Deco Style View from Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara de Lempicka is famous for her Art Deco-styled portraits. Her women are sexy, provocative, bold, appealing and seductive, her men are handsome and brave. May be her masterpieces are that unique and amazing because she reflected her own dramatic life in her incredible art.

Tamara was born in Poland in a wealthy family. She studied in Switzerland and visited Italy with her grandmother. Namely there Tamara fell in love with paintings. After divorce of her parents Tamara moved to Russia and there she met her husband - Tadeusz Łempicki. She lived there until the Bolsheviks arrested her husband during the Russian Revolution. Afterwards she released him and they run to Paris.

De Lempicka started painting and … became one of the best painters in Europe. Meanwhile, her relations with husband came to nought and they got divorced. In 1925 she exhibited her works at the first Art Deco (Paris). In 1939 in the USA de Lempicka met her second husband, Baron Raoul Kuffner, and she was the hottest portrait painter in Hollywood.

She got her first painting lessons from Maurice Denis at the Academe Ranson. Tamara (actually, her real name was Maria Górska) was a follower of Andre Lhote style. She stood on principles of a “safe” cubism. One of greatest fans of Lempicka art is Madonna.