Tag: Tamara de Lempicka
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Tamara de Lempicka’s Portrait de Marjorie Ferry, with Footnotes. #143
Portrait de Marjorie Ferry was painted in 1932 in the artist’s studio on rue Méchain in Paris. Marjorie Ferry, a well-known British chanteuse performing in Paris, is the quintessence of Jazz Age glamour, coolly seductive and unmistakably modern. In fact, there is something of the ocean liner about her streamlined, metallic glossiness. Standing by the…
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Tamara de Lempicka, NU ASSIS DE PROFIL 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 55
Lempicka’s sleek representations of the female nude are renowned as emblems of the Jazz Age. Painted around 1923 in Paris, the female figure in the present work resembles an Amazonian goddess. Her powerful limbs extend beyond the boundary of the picture and the mechanized appearance and sturdy curvature of her body call to mind the…