1923a
TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Nude, Blue Background, 1923
Details
- Title: Nude, Blue Background
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.016
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Height: 70 cm
- Width: 58.5 cm
- Signature: DE LEMPICKA. 24 (top right)
Exhibitions
"- 26/02/1990 - NEW YORK. Sotheby's “5979-Suzi-Q”, # 74 $ 52 500, 27/05/1982 - NEW YORK. Christie's “Tango-5146 A"", # 80 $ 26 000"
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1990 - Private collection -
History
N/A
Notes
(Nu, fond bleu)
Once again, the influence of Lempicka's teacher, Maurice Denis, shows through.
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
A Street at Night, 1923
Details
- Title: A Street at Night
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.017
- Medium: Oil on cardboard
- Height: 50 cm
- Width: 33.5 cm
- Signature: T.DE LEMPICKA. (artist's stamp bottom right)
Exhibitions
"- 1925 - Bottega di Poesia, ""Tamara de Lempitzka"", Milan, Italy, 1981 - Seibu, ""Tamara de Lempicka"", Tokyo-Osaka, Japan, 1997 - Hiroshima Museum of Arts. Tamara de Lempicka, Tokyo-Hiroshima, Japan"
Auctions
N/A
Collections
"- 1972 - Galerie du Luxembourg - France, 1980 - Private collection - France"
History
N/A
Notes
(Rue dans la nuit *)
Somewhere in Central Europe, a dark city street at nighttime. The Expressionistically twisted street lights throw their pale light on the wet ground. The combination of fascination and anxiety with which Lempicka considered city at night comes through here for the first time. It is a theme that would later crop up as a background to many of her portraits, perhaps to express the darker side of her haughty models.
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Lake and Mountain Landscape, 1923
Details
- Title: Lake and Mountain Landscape
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.018
- Medium: Oil on canvas
Exhibitions
1925 - Bottega di Poesia, "Tamara de Lempitzka", Milan, Italy
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1923 - Unknown collection
History
N/A
Notes
(Paysage de lac et de montagne)
A work we are inclined to identify as the painting entitled "By the Waterside", shown at the Bottega di Poesia exhibition
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Seated Nude in Profile, 1923
Details
- Title: Seated Nude in Profile
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.019
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Height: 81 cm
- Width: 54 cm
- Signature: T.DE LEMPICKA. (artist's stamp top right)
Exhibitions
"- 1996 - Barry Friedman Ltd. ""Tamara de Lempicka"", New-York, United States, 1997 - Hiroshima Museum of Arts. Tamara de Lempicka, Tokyo-Hiroshima, Japan"
Auctions
- 26/06/1991 - PARIS. Boisgirard, # 73 $ 0
Collections
"- 1970 - Galerie du Luxembourg - France, 1978 - Private collection - France, 1993 - Private collection - France, 1996 - Barry Friedman Ltd. - U.S.A."
History
N/A
Notes
(Nu assis de profil)
A seated, academy model nude, handled in Cubist-Expressionist style. The profile of the face is left in shadow, thus underscoring the antisocial character exuded by this nude's gnarled and powerfully-built body.
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Brutal Woman Figure, 1923
Details
- Title: Brutal Woman Figure
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.020
- Medium: Oil on canvas
Exhibitions
N/A
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1923 - Unknown collection
History
N/A
Notes
(Figure d'une femme brutale)
A painting identified through a photo of Lempicka's studio taken by her cousin, Constantin Stifter.
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Seated Nude, 1923
Details
- Title: Seated Nude
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.021
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Height: 94 cm
- Weight: 56 cm
- Signature: T.DE LEMPICKA. (top right)
Exhibitions
"1984 - Hollywood American Legion Post, ""Tamara"", Los Angeles, United States, 1994 - Accademia di Francia (Villa Medici), ""Tamara de Lempicka/ Tra eleganza e trasgressione"", Rome, Italy"
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1986 - Barry Friedman Ltd. - U.S.A., 1991 - Private collection - U.S.A."
History
N/A
Notes
Nu assis)
With the help of a magnifying glass, careful scrutiny of this photo - taken in the artist's studio in 1923 - reveals two of her bedside books at the time: "Der Expressionismus" by Fechter, and "Pensées d'Ingres" by x. Tending to waver between the two, she was more in the first mood on the day of this painting.
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
The Sleeping Girl, 1923
Details
- Title: The Sleeping Girl
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.022
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Height: 89 cm
- Weight: 146 cm
- Signature: T.DE LEMPITZKY. 23 (bottom right)
Exhibitions
"1924 - Salon des Indépendants 1924, Paris, France, 1994 - Accademia di Francia (Villa Medici), ""Tamara de Lempicka/ Tra eleganza e trasgressione"", Rome, Italy, 1996 - Barry Friedman Ltd. ""Tamara de Lempicka"", New-York, United States"
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1980 - Private collection - U.S.A., 980 - Barry Friedman Ltd. - U.S.A.
History
N/A
Notes
(La dormeuse *)
The proud pubis, taking up almost the entire center of this painting, is well framed by two sturdy thighs. A work that is somewhat reminiscent, today, of the famous work on the same theme that Gustave Courbet so lovingly painted. Although, by 1923, 19th-century modesty was probably outdated, this early work by Lempicka does seem intentionally provocative. Interestingly, she was listed as a man in the exhibition catalog of the Salon des Indépendants, where she showed that year.
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Perspective, 1923
Details
- Title: Perspective, 1923
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.023
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Height: 130 cm
- Weight: 162 cm
- Signature: T.DE LEMPITZKY (bottom right)
Exhibitions
"- 1923 - Salon d'Automne 1923, Paris, France, 1925 - Bottega di Poesia, ""Tamara de Lempitzka"", Milan, Italy, 1981 - Seibu, ""Tamara de Lempicka"", Tokyo-Osaka, Japan, 1991 - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, ""Les années 20, l'âge des métropoles"", Montréal, Canada"
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1969 - Musée du Petit Palais, Genève - Switzerland
History
N/A
Notes
(Perspective *)
The title, hypocritically referring to the painting's background, seems to have been chosen (by Lempicka) to assuage any excessively prudish reactions to this classic Sapphic composition. A theme to which the artist would often revert (cf. "Group of Four Nudes" B.64, "Myrto" B.118, etc.).
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Seated Nude, 1923
Details
- Title: Seated Nude
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.024
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Height: 92 cm
- Weight: 62 cm
- Signature: T.DE LEMPICKA. (artist's stamp bottom right)
Exhibitions
1984 - Hollywood American Legion Post, "Tamara", Los Angeles, United States
Auctions
13/11/1985 - NEW YORK. Christie's “Rudolf-6020", # 311 $ 26 000
Collections
1985 - Private collection - U.S.A.
History
N/A
Notes
(Nu assis)
- The inscription on the back of this painting was misread - and hence wrongly listed in an auction catalog - as "View of the Departure". It was "Rue du Départ" that was actually written, referring to the street where André Lhote had set up his academy, and where this painting was probably done.
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Il fondo rosa (Portrait of Bibi Zögbe), 1923
Details
- Title: Il fondo rosa (Portrait of Bibi Zögbe)
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.025
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Height: 47 cm
- Weight: 38.7 cm
- Signature: T de Lempicka (bottom left in pencil)
Exhibitions
"1925 - Bottega di Poesia, ""Tamara de Lempitzka"", Milan, Italy, 1996 - Barry Friedman Ltd. ""Tamara de Lempicka"", New-York, United States, 1997 - Hiroshima Museum of Arts. Tamara de Lempicka, Tokyo-Hiroshima, Japan"
Auctions
05/10/1992 - NEW YORK. Sotheby's “6341-Presto”, # 59 $ 0, 07/06/1991 - PARIS. Lenormand, Dayen, # 58 $ 0, 25/06/1990 - PARIS. Loudmer, # 216 $ 53 800
Collections
1924 - Purchased directly by Mrs. Bibi Zögbe - Argentina, 1995 - Barry Friedman Ltd. - U.S.A., 1997 - Private collection - Milan"
History
Bibi ZOGBE, Client: "Bibi" Zogbe (or Zögbe) was a painter and friend of Lempicka's during the twenties. She left Europe in the thirties to settle in Argentina, where she died in 1979.
Notes
Il fondo rosa * (Portrait de Bibi Zögbe)
Bibi Zögbe was a painter herself
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Figure Study, 1923
Details
- Title: Figure Study
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.0256
- Medium: Oil on canvas
Exhibitions
N/A
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1923 - Unknown collection
History
N/A
Notes
(Etude de figure)
All trace has been lost of this "Italianizing" oval face, observed from below. A painting identified through a photo of Lempicka's studio taken by her cousin, Constantin Stifter.
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Portrait of a Man in a Club Chair, 1923
Details
- Title: Portrait of a Man in a Club Chair
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.027
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Signature: T.DE LEMPITZKY 23 (bottom left)
Exhibitions
"1923 - Salon des Indépendants 1923, Paris, France, 1925 - Bottega di Poesia, ""Tamara de Lempitzka"", Milan, Italy"
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1923 - Unknown collection
History
Tadeusz LEMPITZKI, Family or close friend: In 1916, in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Tamara Gorska married Count Tadeusz Lempitzki (or Lempicki, since the nobiliary particle was added later, in France). After jointly emigrating to France with their daughter Kizette, the couple divorced in 1928.
Notes
(Portrait d'homme dans un fauteuil club)
This portrait is said to be a portrait of Tadeusz, but available photos of the latter show a more elegant and skinnier figure. In her photo album, the artist listed this work merely as "Portrait 1923".
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
The Louis-Philippe Decanter, 1923
Details
- Title: The Louis-Philippe Decanter
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.028
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Height: 35 cm
- Width: 27 cm
- Signature: T.DE LEMPICKA. (artist's stamp bottom right)
Exhibitions
1925 - Bottega di Poesia, "Tamara de Lempitzka", Milan, Italy
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1979 - Private collection - France
History
N/A
Notes
(La carafe Louis-Philippe)
An opaline decanter and an orange, depicted against background drapery. As is frequently the case with young and impatient painters, Lempicka painted this work over an earlier one.
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Her Sadness, 1923
Details
- Title: Her Sadness
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.030
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Height: 116 cm
- Width: 73 cm
- Signature: DE LEMPITZKY. 23 (bottom left)
Exhibitions
"1923 - Salon des Indépendants 1923, Paris, France, 1925 - Bottega di Poesia, ""Tamara de Lempitzka"", Milan, Italy"
Auctions
N/A
Collections
"1924 - Purchased directly by Dr. Arthur Bookman - U.S.A., 1980 - Private collection - U.S.A."
History
Ira PERROT, Family or close friend: Until 1939, Ira Perrot and Lempicka were close friends. Besides sitting for her 1930 portrait ("Portrait of Ira Perrot" [B.143]), most probably Perrot was also the model for "Woman in the Black Dress" (B.31) and "Her Sadness" (B.30). The latter work is listed in Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall's book as "Portrait of Mrs. P."
Notes
Sa tristesse *)
The second portrait of Ira Perrot, and the first to be acquired by a Lempicka fan, in 1924. To date (1998), it still belongs to the same family. Is it necessary to be sad yourself to paint someone else's sadness? The "Her" of the title implies this need not be the case.
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Woman in a Black Dress, 1923
Details
- Title: Woman in a Black Dress
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: B.031
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Height: 195 cm
- Width: 60.5 cm
- Signature: T. DE LEMPITZKY. 23 (top right)
Exhibitions
"1923 - Salon des Indépendants 1923, Paris, France, 1972 - Galerie du Luxembourg, ""Tamara de Lempicka de 1925 à 1935"", Paris, France, 1980 - Musée des Arts Décoratifs 1980, ""La famille des portraits"", Paris, France, 1994 - Accademia di Francia (Villa Medici), ""Tamara de Lempicka/ Tra eleganza e trasgressione"", Rome, Italy"
Auctions
"12/05/1987 - NEW YORK. Sotheby's “5574-Surprise”, # 335 $ 0, 01/07/1992 - LONDON. Sotheby's “Rodo”, # 235 $ 94 300"
Collections
"1975 - Brockstedt Gallery - Germany, 1980 - Private collection - Argentina, 1992 - Private collection - Germany"
History
Ira PERROT, Family or close friend: Until 1939, Ira Perrot and Lempicka were close friends. Besides sitting for her 1930 portrait ("Portrait of Ira Perrot" [B.143]), most probably Perrot was also the model for "Woman in the Black Dress" (B.31) and "Her Sadness" (B.30). The latter work is listed in Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall's book as "Portrait of Mrs. P."
Notes
(Femme à la robe noire)
Cropped very closely and narrowly, a pathetic figure in black and red clasps a little red book to her bosom. Lempicka's friend Ira Perrot may well have sat for this new portrait
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Study for a Portrait, 1923
Details
- Title: Study for a Portrait
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: A.014
- Medium: Conté pencil on paper
- Height: 24 cm
- Width: 15.5 cm
- Signature: T.DE LEMPICKA (artist's stamp bottom right)
Exhibitions
N/A
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1972 - Private collection - France
History
N/A
Notes
(Etude pour un portrait)
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Mechanist Composition, 1923
Details
- Title: Mechanist Composition
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: A.015
- Medium: Conté pencil on paper
- Height: 11.2 cm
- Width: 7.6 cm
- Signature: LEMPICKA. (artist's stamp bottom right)
Exhibitions
N/A
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1972 - Private collection - France
History
N/A
Notes
measurements of the drawing (Composition mécaniste)
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Abstract Composition, 1923
Details
- Title: Abstract Composition
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: A.016
- Medium: Crayon on paper
- Height: 23.6 cm
- Width: 14.2 cm
- Signature: LEMPICKA. (artist's stamp bottom right)
Exhibitions
N/A
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1994 - Private collection - France
History
N/A
Notes
(Composition abstraite)
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Abstract Composition, 1923
Details
- Title: Abstract Composition
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: A.017
- Medium: Crayon on paper
- Height: 23.6 cm
- Width: 14.2 cm
- Signature: T.L. (bottom left)
Exhibitions
N/A
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1970 - Private collection - France
History
N/A
Notes
(Composition abstraite)
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Abstract Composition, 1923
Details
- Title: Abstract Composition
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: A.018
- Medium: Watercolor on paper
- Height: 18 cm
- Width: 8 cm
- Signature: LEMPICKA. (artist's stamp bottom right)
Exhibitions
N/A
Auctions
N/A
Collections
1970 - Private collection - France
History
N/A
Notes
(Composition abstraite)
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Pensive Athlete, 1923
Details
- Title: Pensive Athlete
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: A.020
- Medium: Crayon on paper
- Height: 22.8 cm
- Width: 13.3 cm
- Signature: de Lempicka (bottom left)
Exhibitions
N/A
Auctions
N/A
Collections
N/A
History
N/A
Notes
(Athlète pensif)
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Man, Standing Nude, 1923
Details
- Title: Man, Standing Nude
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: A.021
- Medium: Crayon on paper
- Height: 23.6 cm
- Width: 14.2 cm
- Signature: T. de Lempicka (bottom right)
Exhibitions
N/A
Auctions
N/A
Collections
N/A
History
N/A
Notes
(Homme, nu debout)
1981 - Walter Haas: Art Déco, le Style Moderne, Zuerich, Switzerland
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Man, Seated Nude, 1923
Details
- Title: Man, Seated Nude, 1923
- Year: 1923
- Catalog ID: A.019
- Medium: Crayon on paper
- Height: 22.8 cm
- Width: 13.3cm
- Signature: de Lempicka (bottom right)
Exhibitions
N/A
Auctions
N/A
Collections
N/A
History
N/A
Notes
(Homme, nu assis)
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