Tamara de Lempicka - Hardcover

Blondel, Alain; Brugger, Ingried

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903973422 ISBN 13: 9781903973424

Publisher: Royal Academy Publications, 2004

Synopsis

This catalogue is published to accompany the first exhibition in Britain dedicated to the work of Art Deco painter, Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), held at London's Royal Academy of Arts in 2004. Focusing on de Lempicka's most productive years, between 1922 and 1935, the text features 60-plus color plates--mostly striking portraits of Parisian writ

About this title

About the Author:

Alain Blondel is the author of Tamara de Lempicka's catalogue raisonné. Ingried Brugger is the director of the Kunstforum, Vienna.

From Booklist:

Those eyes, those lips, that hair! Tamara de Lempicka captured the imagination with these trademark features in her distinctive paintings of Parisian glitterati in the 1920s and 1930s. Her combination of sensuously modeled, rounded forms with machine-age architectural shapes in society portraits propelled her to acclaim as the definitive Parisian art deco painter. An escapee from Bolshevik Russia, she studied with Maurice Denis and Andre Lhote in Paris, quickly fusing synthetic neo-cubism with influences from sixteenth-century Italian classicism. A 1925 exhibit in Milan thrust her into high society there and in Paris, where she worked from eight until five, doing three sittings daily and painting most of her great portraits in three weeks or less, aided by her perceptive psychological analysis of her subjects. Commentaries by Alain Blondel, Ingried Brugger, and Tag Gronberg complement the many photos and luscious full-color reproductions that give "gorgeous" new meaning and make this a must-have art book for strong twentieth-century and women's art collections. Whitney Scott
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About this edition

• Publisher: Royal Academy Publications
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1903973422
• ISBN 13: 9781903973424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168