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Born Tamara Rosalia Gurwik-Gorska in 1898 in Warsaw, Poland (then a sovereign state of Russia), Tamara de Lempicka has come to be recognized both by her epithet, “Baroness with a Brush,” and as icon of the Roaring Twenties. As the daughter of wealthy parents, she was sent to Lausanne, Switzerland, to attend boarding school as a child—an experience she despised. During the summer of one of her final years in Lausanne, however, her grandmother took her on a tour of Italy, where she first witnessed the work of Old Masters, an encounter that would ultimately inspire her life-long passion for art.
After the divorce of her parents, she was sent to live with an aunt in St. Petersburg; her aunt was considerably wealthy, and it was here that de Lempicka developed her taste for luxury living. At 18 she was wed to Tadeusz Lempicki, but within a year of their marriage the Russian Revolution forced the newlyweds to relocate to Paris—in a bid to reinvent herself in the new city, she assumed the name Tamara de Lempicka (a name she felt had an aristocratic air). L
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Born of a Russian Jewish father and a Polish mother, Tamara de Lempicka spent her childhood in St. Petersburg, Warsaw, and Lausanne. She maintained memories from her childhood of a life of a privilege, punctuated by prestigious soirées in the company of the cultured Saint Petersburg nobility. Shortly after her marriage in 1916 to the Polish lawyer Tadeusz Lempicki, she saw the easy happiness for which she was destined swept away by the 1917 October Revolution. Forced to flee the Bolshevik regime, the couple ended up in Paris, where Lempicka had to sell her jewelry to survive. She divorced her husband in 1928 in order to marry the baron Raoul Kuffner in 1933. In Paris, she frequented the ateliers of Maurice Denis and André Lhote. She came into her own style around 1925, when, encouraged by Count Emanuele di Castelbarco, a Milanese gallery owner, she painted 28 new paintings in six months, including thirty which were shown at the Bottega di Poesia gallery in Milan. Quickly becoming one of the most in-demand portrait artists, she completed a string of portraits of the
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Tamara de Lempicka
Polish painter (1894–1980)
"Lempicka" redirects here. For the stage show based on her life, see Lempicka (musical). For the surname, see Łempicki.
Tamara Łempicka (pronounced[taˈmarawɛmˈpit͡ska]ⓘ; 16 June 1894 – 18 March 1980),[1][2][3] known outside Poland as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.
Born in Warsaw, records have long asserted her birthname was Tamara Rozalia Gurwik-Górska,[4] though documents have uncovered her true name as Tamara Rosa Hurwitz.[5][6][7] She briefly moved to Saint Petersburg where she married Tadeusz Łempicki, a prominent Polish lawyer, then travelled to Paris. She studied painting with Maurice Denis and André Lhote. Her style was a blend of late, refined cubism and the neoclassical style, particularly inspired by the work of Jean-Dominique Ingre
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