About
Tamara de Lempicka was a Polish painter working in Paris from 1922 to 1939 then in United States and Mexico. Known as the Diva of Art Deco, her “Self-Portrait" , (Tamara in the Green Bugatti), 1929 has been called the “Icon of Modern Woman”. Famous for her polished nudes and vibrant portraits of the jazz age glitterati, she invented her own unique style combining extreme modernism with neo-classicism.
"I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was finished."
–Tamara de Lempicka