Tamara de Lempicka Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"Self Portrait"
Title: Self Portrait
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 21 x 28 in | Image Size: 17 x 23 in
Edition | Medium: Edition 100. The print is hand numbered and accompanied by a certificate signed by Tamara de Lempicka's granddaughter and bearing the Lempicka Estate stamp. | Paper
About the Art: Limited Edition
About the Artist:
Tamara Gurwik-Gorka was born in Warsaw or possibly in Moscow (accounts vary). Her father was a Jewish merchant and her mother the daughter of Polish bankers. Her parents divorced and she married a Polish lawyer, Tadeusz Lempicki. She lived in post-war Parisian exile and her husband`s indolence and the birth of her daughter made her decide to make a living as an artist. She trained with the fashionable Andre Lhote and soon made her Art Deco reputation with erotic nudes and portraits of the high-society in which she moved. Famous for her libido, her affairs with both men and women were carried-out in ways that were scandalous at the time. Her husband eventually tired of their arrangement and they were divorced in 1931. A rich second husband and the renewed war exiled her to the US and Mexico. Tamara de Lempicka died in her sleep in 1980 in Mexico. Her wish to be cremated and have her ashes spread on top of the Popocatepetl Volcano was carried-out.
