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An ART DECO must see ... Tamara de Lempicka at San Francisco's de Young Museum |
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Large Photo of Tamara de Lempicka c1932 (age 38) at the entrance of the exhibition |
Tamara de Lempicka is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and her highly stylized paintings of nudes. |
Tamara de Lempicka, The Bohemian Woman (La bohémienne) c1923 oil on canvas, private collection |
Tamara de Lempicka, Russian Dancer , 1924-25 oil on canvas, Collection of Marek Roefler Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland |
The Bohemian Woman was painted during Tamara's early years Paris. This early painting reveals Tamara's love of the color green which becomes prominent in many of her later works. |
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Produced by the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, this film features interviews with curator Furio Rinaldi and Tamara de Lempicka's great-granddaughter, Marisa de Lempicka. It outlines 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. |
Tamara de Lempicka, Still Life with Russian Doll (Hyacinth) c 1924 oil on canvas on cardboard, private collection |
Tamara de Lempicka, Still Life with Cauliflower c 1924-25 oil on canvas, collection of Roy and Jenny Niederhoffer |
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Tamara de Lempicka, Bouquet of Violets, c 1927 oil on board, Collection of Henryk Bury |
Tamara de Lempicka, Studio Corner c 1924 oil on canvas, collection of Marek Roefler Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland |
Bouquet of Violets and Studio Corner give clues about Tamara's early struggling years in Paris. This studio corner and table with a bouquet of violets may well have been in Tamara's apartment at 1, Place de Wagram or 5 Rue Guy de Maupassant. Studio Corner may be a corner of Andre Lhoté's art academy in Montparnasse. Studio Corner plays on shades of blue, and the book shelf filled with drawing practice and reading manuals are evidence of Tamara's years of artistic study. |
Paul Priestly is an art teacher and more recently, a self-confessed video YouTuber. Here he tells the incredible story of artist Tamara de Lempicka. This video is well produced, researched and presented. |
In 1916, Tamara married Tadeusz Łempicki, a lawyer who worked for Tzar Nicholas II. For a brief time, they enjoyed a privileged and comfortable life in St. Petersburg. But during the Russian Revolution in 1917, Tadeusz Łempicki was arrested and jailed. |
Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of a Man (Tadeusz Lempicki) 1929 oil on canvas, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne Centre de création industrielle, Paris |
Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of Baron Raoul Kuffner 1928-1932 oil on panel, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne Centre de création industrielle, Paris |
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Portrait of a Man and Portrait of Baron Raoul Kuffner are Tamara's first and second husbands respectively. |
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Their short lived marriage had to deal with fleeing Paris, his imprisonment and eventual release, their relocation to Paris, and Tamara's "freewheeling lifestyle." The skyscrapers in this portrait of him suggest it was done in New York during their first visit there in 1929. He is eligantly dressed, his large frame draped in the shimmering fabric of a classically tailored double breasted overcoat. His left hand holds a top hat, but the hand itself is left intentionally unfinished; his ring finger has no wedding ring. |
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Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of André Gide 1925 oil on cardboard, private collection |
Tamara de Lempicka, Kizette on the Balcony, 1927 oil on canvas, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne Centre de création industrielle, Paris |
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Portrait of Andre Gidé This portrait was praised by critics for its chilling appearance. Andre Gidé (1869-1951) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947 for his novel Les Faux-monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters) which shocked readers with its honest treatment of homosexuality. Gidé was a member of the jury at the 1923 Salon d' Automne in which Lempicka exhibited. Meeting Andre Gidé was Tamara's entree into Parisian intellectual circles. |
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In Paris, Tamara matured socially and artistically. She gave birth to her only daughter, Maria Krystyna (Kizette) in 1919. She pursued her art studies with Marice Denis and Andre Lhoté. Denis was an artist associated with Les Nabis symbolism and neo classicism. Lhoté was a French cubist painter of figures. Lhoté proved to be very influential on Tamara de Lempicka. |
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Before the rise of Naziism, Tamara de Lempicka paintings graced the cover of Die Dame in the late 1920's and early 1930's, Die Dame was a stylish Berlin based magazine promoting "the modern woman." |
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From 1927 through 1930, Tamara de Lempicka collaborated with Die Dame, a prestigious woman's magazine in Berlin, featuring colorful illustrations of fashion, literature, and the arts. Tamara de Lempicka's paintings made the cover, including her famous self portrait in a green Bugatti (an automobile praised for its design beauty and style) in July of 1929, Die Dame reached its popularity during Germany's inter-war years and was a platform to express the aspirations and successes of "the modern woman." |
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Tamara de Lempicka, Kizette with a Polish Shawl 1933 oil on panel, private collection |
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The Communicant The placard of this painting points to its chromatic finesse and the sumptuous draping of Kizette's robe and hooded veil. The painting may have been done in part to mask the family's Jewish heritage in the face of Nazi era anti-Semitism. |
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Tamara de Lempicka, Her Sadness, 1923 oil on canvas, private collection, courtesy of Sotheby's |
Tamara de Lempicka, Face and Profile (Double Portrait), 1931 oil on panel, The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Berlin, Germany |
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Both of these portraits are of Ira Perrot, Tamara's lover. She was a poet, and frequently modeled for Tamara's paintings. |
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Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of Ira P 1931 oil on panel, private collection |
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Tamara de Lempicka,Brilliance (Bacchante) c 1932 oil on canvas, Collection of Rowland Weinstein, Weinstein Gallery, SF |
Tamara de Lempicka, The Straw Hat 1930 oil on panel, Collection of Professor Mark Kaufman, Monaco |
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Brilliance (Bacchante) and The Straw Hat were stunning, but the exhibition placards had no additional information identifying the models or any other information about these paintings. The dreamy blue eyes in both of these portraits was captivating. |
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Tamara de Lempicka, Irene and Her Sister, 1925 oil on canvas, Private collection, courtesy of Irena Hochman Fine Art Ltd., New York |
Tamara de Lempicka, Saint-Moritz 1929 oil on panel, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, France |
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Irene and Her Sister were Tamara de Lempicka's cousins. Like Lempicka, they also fled Russia arriving in Paris in 1921. Their geometric and nearly mechanical forms is contrasted by the natural background. This portrait was featured in 1927 in Vanity Fair. According to Kizette's biography of her mother, this painting started the Art Deco movement. |
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Saint-Moritz is a Swiss resort. In 1928, Saint-Moritz hosted the Winter Olympics. The German publication Die Dame placed this painting on their cover in the winter of 1928 to celebrate the opening of the Winter Games. Saint-Moritz was a place where European high society met Hollywood royalty, such as Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson. The model in this painting is Ira Perrot, Tamara de Lempicka's long time lover and muse. The red sweater against the white snow is very close to the shades of red and white found in Switzerland's flag. |
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Tamara de Lempicka, Woman with a Green Glove 1928 oil on panel, private collection |
Tamara de Lempicka, Young Woman in Green (Young Woman with Gloves) c 1931 oil on board , Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre de création industrielle, Paris |
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Woman with a Green Glove The slanted assertive pose and confident gaze of this woman expresses her power and social status. |
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This is not accidental. Tamara de Lempicka admired the Italian Mannerist portraiture of Agnolo Bronzio, Parmigianino and Jacopo Pontormo for their sophistication and style. The model for this painting is unidentified. |
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Tamara de Lempicka, Nude with Buildings (Nu aux buildings) 1930 oil on canvas, collection of Caroline Hirsch |
Tamara de Lempicka, Woman with a Dove 1931 oil on panel, collection of Patty and Jay Baker courtesy of Artis--Naples, The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida |
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Nude with Buildings was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1931. Although nude, this woman appears polished to perfection, carefully made up, eyebrows drawn and her hair in curls according to the fashion of the day. Her warm skin tones, the olive branch held in her right hand, her pink lips and fingernails contrast with the steely metallic skyscrapers behind her. This is a motif returned to again and again in Tamara de Lempicka's paintings following her trip to New York in 1929. |
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Tamara de Lempicka,La belle Rafaëla 1927, oil on canvas, Collection of Tim Rice |
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Le belle Rafaëla shows a woman absorbed in her own erotic pleasure. Rafaëla was a sex worker who met Tamara de Lempicka in the Bois de Boulogne park in Paris. The two were lovers. This painting owes much to Tamara de Lempika's reverence for the work of other artists. The pose in this painting is traceable to Gustave Courbet's Bacchante. Its lighting and color palette is an homage to Caravaggio. |
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Tamara de Lempicka, The Refugees 1931 oil on panel, Musée d'art et d'histoire Paul Éluard, Saint-Denis, France |
Tamara de Lempicka, Escape (Somewhere in Europe) 1940 oil on canvas, Musée d'arts de Nantes, France |
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The Refugees Although Tamara de Lempicka was a privileged person in life and counted among her interests the fashionable and stylish free expression of modern women, she did not forget the world around her. In The Refugees, the figures seem infused with her own family memories as a result of anti-Semitism and fleeing the Russian Revolution. |
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Jan van Eyck, Portrait of a Man National Gallery, London (Self portrait?) 1433 |
Tamara de Lempicka, Wisdom (La sagesse) 1940-41 oil on panel, Colección Pérez Simón, Mexico |
The young woman reading a book in La sagesse is similar to the composition Tamara used in Kizette with a Polish Shawl 1933, pictured earlier in this article. |
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In the nearby town of Bodega ... Dodrill Gallery 17175 Bodega Highway, Bodega CA 94922 Famed photographer, world adventurer and rock climber Jerry Dodrill exhibits and sells and his exceptional landscape photographs ... https://jerrydodrill.photoshelter.com/p/page2 | 707-377-4732 Photo@JerryDodrill.com| Back to the Top |
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Bodega Gallery in the historic town of Bodega We are located in the town's original blacksmith shop from the 1850's and it has been an art gallery since the 1960's. We showcase jewelry, toys, paintings, kinetic art, and decorative and functional ceramics. https://bodegaartgallery.com | 415-515-4665 |
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Bodega Bay's John Hershey Photography Bodega Bay resident photographer John Hershey displays his scenic shoreline and sea life images locally in restaurants, visitor venues and art shows. His 50 year career has encompassed multimedia production, commercial and personal photography, environmental portraiture, and community photojournalism. John recently added interpretive infrared photography to his portfolio. John Hershey Photography Portfolio ... http://www.jhersheyphoto.com John Hershey Photography Sales ... https://j-hershey-media.square.site |
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Bodega Bay's Jean Warren Watercolors Bodega Bay resident Jean Warren says her paintings are reflections of the places she has lived and traveled. Jean is a Signature member of the National Watercolor Society, California Watercolor Association and full member of Society of Layerists in Multi-Media. http://www.JeanWarren.com / 707-875-9240 |
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IN SEBASTOPOL - Sebastopol Center for the Arts |
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Corrick's Keven Brown |
IN SANTA ROSA Corrick's Art Trails Gallery | http://www.corricks.com/arttrailsgallery 637 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 | Contact:: http://www.corricks.com/contact-us Corrick's has been a Santa Rosa Treasure since 1915, a downtown stationery store serving as the community's "cultural hub." Corrick's has long supported local artists with its impressive "ART TRAILS GALLERY," including paintings by Linda Sorensen. Corricks offers a number of originals by famed Santa Rosa artist, Maurice Lapp ... (see our August 2017 article) located on Fourth Street, steps away from Santa Rosa's revitalized town square and Fourth Street's Russian River Brewery |
Linda Sorensen's White Barn circa 1880, Sea Ranch currently available at |
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IN SANTA ROSA- Calabi Gallery | http://www.calabigallery.com 456 Tenth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 | email: info@calabigallery.com | 707-781-7070 Famed master conservator Dennis Calabi brings his rare knowledge and experience to present a tasteful and eclectic array of primarily 20th century artwork. http://www.calabigallery.com | Back to the Top |
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IN Santa Rosa - The Annex Galleries specializing in 19th, 20th, and 21st century American and European fine prints The Annex Galleries is a member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA). http://www.AnnexGalleries.com | Back to the Top |
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IN GRATON - Graton Gallery |
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IN DUNCANS MILLS - Christopher Queen Galleries 3 miles east of Hwy 1 on Hwy 116 on the Russian River http://www.christopherqueengallery.com |707-865-1318| Back to the Top |
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IN Healdsburg - Paul Mahder Gallery http://www.paulmahdergallery.com (707) 473-9150 | Info@paulmahdergallery.com 222 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, CA 95448 | check for hours |
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Links to current museum exhibits relevant to Early California Art | |||
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The Walt Disney Family Museum -- see website for details This museum tells Walt's story from the early days. (on the Parade Grounds) 104 Montgomery Street, The Presidio of San Francisco, CA 94129 -- view location on Google Maps -- |
San Francisco ... see website de Young Museum Permanent Collection |
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San Francisco closed, see website California Historical Society |
San Francisco Legion of Honor ... see website -Permanent European and Impressionist Paintings |
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San Francisco open, see website for details Contemporary Jewish Museum |
Oakland ... see website Oakland Museum of California -- ongoing Gallery of California Art -showcasing over 800 works from the OMCA's collection |
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Santa Rosa |
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Santa Rosa ... see website Charles M. Schultz Museum |
Moraga |
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Sonoma Mission San Francisco de Solano Museum featuring the famed watercolor paintings of the California Missions by Christian Jorgensen |
Sonoma Sonoma Valley Museum of Art ... see website 551 Broadway, Sonoma CA (707) 939-7862 |
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Ukiah Grace Hudson Museum ... see website http://www.gracehudsonmuseum.org |
Bolinas |
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Walnut Creek ... see website The Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts |
San Jose San Jose Museum of Art ... see website approximately 2,000 20th & 21st century artworks including paintings, sculpture, new media, photography, drawings, prints, and artist books. |
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Monterey Monterey Museum of Art ... see website Ongoing exhibitions ... Museums Permanent Collection including William Ritschel, Armin Hansen and E. Charlton Fortune http://www.montereyart.org |
Palo Alto ... see website Cantor Art Center at Stanford University |
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Monterey |
Sacramento Crocker Art Museum ... see websites |
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Sacramento Capitol Museum ... see website Governor's Portrait Gallery Permanent Exhibits (including one of our galllery's favorite artists, Robert Rishell's portrait of Gov. Ronald Reagan |
Stockton's Treasure! The Haggin Museum ... see website -Largest exhibition of Albert Bierstadt paintings anywhere, plus the works of Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell's mentor. see our Newsletter article, April 2011 |
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Southern California (and Arizona) (for all museums below, see websites for hours and protocols. | |||
Los Angeles Los Angeles Museum of Art Art of the Americas, Level 3: Artworks of paintings and sculptures from the colonial period to World War II— a survey of of art and culture & "Levitated Mass" |
Irvine UCI IMCA (University of California, Irvine Institute and Museum of California Art) (formerly The Irvine Museum) |
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Santa Barbara The Santa Barbara Museum of Art |
Orange Hilbert Museum, Chapman University |
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San Diego San Diego Museum of Art Permanent Collection |
Pasadena Norton Simon Museum -an Impressive Permanent collection, European impressionist and post impressionist paintings See our newsletter from March 2014 |
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Los Angeles California African American Art Museum adjacent to the LA Coliseum (see our newsletter articleof their Ernie Barnes Exhibition September 2019) |
San Marino (near Pasadena) The Huntington Library American Art Collection Paintings by John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, Robert Henri, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, William Keith, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Hart Benton and many more. |
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Phoenix, AZ Phoenix Art Museum an excellent sampling of Artists of the American West |
Palm Springs |
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Honolulu, HI Honolulu Museum (see our Newsletter article from February, 2015) |
Kamuela, HI (Big Island) Issacs Art Center 65-1268 Kawaihae Road Kamuela, HI 96743 (See our Dec '16 article "Hawaii's Paul Gauguin," modernist Madge Tennent, 1889-1972) |
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Seattle, WA Seattle Art Museum ( see our article Mar 2018 French and American Paintings ) |
Portland, OR Portland Art Museum Permanent Collection: American Art |
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Washington D.C. The Renwick Gallery Permanent ... Grand Salon Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
Chicago, IL Art Institute of Chicago Permanent collection: the Impressionists |
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Cedar Rapids, IA The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Grant Wood: In Focus is an ongoing permanent collection exhibition. |
Bentonville, AR |
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Washington D.C. The National Gallery Permanent collection American Paintings |
Philadelphia , PA The Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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Philadelphia , PA Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Campus |
Brooklyn, NY The Brooklyn Museum American Art Permanent Collection |
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New York , NY The Whitney Museum of American Art The largest selection of works by Edward Hopper |
New York, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art Its extensive collection of American Art |
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Detroit, MI Detroit Institute of Arts American Art Permanent Collection |
Ottawa, Ontario National Gallery of Canada |
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Denver, CO Denver Art Museum |
Boston, MA |
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