First Night Design | Tamara De Lempicka [1898 – 1980]

Sharing Secrets, 1928 – Tamara de Lempicka – www.tamara-de-lempicka.org

Tamara De Lempicka is an artist whose work I wish was in the public domain so that I could sell it at First Night Vintage.  Alas, she died in 1980 so that unless my business becomes a worldwide success in the near future (stranger things have happened!), I cannot afford to licence any of the images.

Wikipedia
Born into a wealthy and prominent family, her father was a Polish lawyer, her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Polish socialite. Maria was the middle child with two siblings. She attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and spent the winter of 1911 with her grandmother in Italy and the French Riviera, where she was treated to her first taste of the Great Masters of Italian painting. In 1912, her parents divorced and Maria went to live with her wealthy Aunt Stefa in St. Petersburg, Russia. When her mother remarried, she became determined to break away to a life of her own. In 1913, at the age of fifteen, while attending the opera, Maria spotted the man she became determined to marry. She promoted her campaign through her well-connected uncle and in 1916 she married Tadeusz Lempicki in St. Petersburg; a well-known ladies man, gadabout, and lawyer by title, who was tempted by the significant dowry.… Read more…

Portrait of Mrs Allan Bott, 1930

Woman with Dove, 1931

Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti

The Green Turban, 1929

Take care and keep laughing!