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| Tamara de Lempicka, 1898-1980 |
Consciously converging her identities as painter, image and object of desire, Tamara de Lempicka defined the glamorous modern woman of Paris’s 1920s elite. She enjoyed a widespread reputation as an alluring Cubism-inspired artist who allowed interruptions in portrait sittings only for champagne, bath and massage. In spite of her omission from modern art history de Lempicka’s paintings have left an artistic legacy which still poses provocative questions about feminine self-representation.
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