1924b-1925a

• Title: Rythm
• Year: 1924
• Catalog ID: B.051
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Height: 160 cm
• Width: 144 cm
• Signature: T DE LEMPITZKY (bottom left)

"1925 - Bottega di Poesia, ""Tamara de Lempitzka"", Milan, Italy, 1926 - Salon des Indépendants 1926, Paris, France"

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"1929 - Purchased directly by Mr. Kuno Hoffer - Hungaria, 1935 - Private collection - Switzerland, 1972 - Private collection - Switzerland, 1991 - Private collection"

Cuno HOFER, Client: Cuno Hofer was the proud owner of the largest (in format) work ever to leave the artist's studio. In an interview for the Italian journal Cose, in March 1933, Lempicka described Hofer as "a famous Swiss writer, who met tragic death two years before in Saint Moritz." Hofer must have been a shrewd collector as well, one who appreciated the Neue Sachlichkeit trend, judging from the fact that he had Davringhausen do his portrait in 1922. (Collection Barry Friedman, New York).

(Le rythme *)

This group of nudes features a cello, but there is no hint of any percussion intruments! Thus, the title is meant in a more metaphoric sense, and it is the rhythm of the lines that we should perceive. The influence of Ingres is often brought up in connection with this work, acquired - upon the occasion of Lempicka's show at the Bottega di Poesia - by the Swiss writer Cuno Hoffer. In an interview granted COSE in March 1933, Lempicka disclosed: << One of my paintings - Rythm - appealed to d'Annunzio (he mentions it in its writing).>>

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