Tamara De Lempicka

Tamara De Lempicka labeled an “Art Deco Painter” … an “Icon of the Jazz Age” … a “Perverse Ingre”  

Tamara De Lempicka was a 20th century portrait painter – she painted the rich, renowned, the refugees, and famous New Yorkers. We can identify the skyscrapers of New York in her paintings.

This slideshow and lecture will present the Art of the 20th century female artist with a mysterious Slavic name and a radiant beauty approaching the pre-eminence of Garbo. Tamara De Lempicka subjected the sensuality of the human body to a geometric approach. Her art is a fusion of sculptural hyperrealism and classic painting. She aimed at sharp precision, simplicity and a startling contrast of tone and haunting shadows.

Tamara De Lempicka surprises and provokes. Lempicka defined an era with her vibrantly colored paintings. View the polished nature of her portraits eloquently revealed… the paintings of an era she made glamourous… the paintings collected by Barbara Streisand, Jack Nicholson, and Madonna.