Tamara de Lempicka’s art deco paintings — beloved by Madonna, celebrated in a musical and a major show in San Francisco — are immaculate and artificial.

With her portraits of red-lipped women painted like sculptures in resplendent jewel tones, the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka has posthumously become an Art Deco icon. Her figures are sumptuous ...

Tamara de Lempicka’s art deco paintings — beloved by Madonna, celebrated in a musical and a major show in San Francisco — are immaculate and artificial.

It unites over 120 paintings as well as other Art Deco sculptures and objects from the museum’s collection that help put ... (1927), and Young Woman in Green (1931). Tamara de Lempicka, Young ...

An Art Deco icon gets her due with almost 100 works in first major U.S. retrospective. ... “I was the first woman to make clear paintings, and that was the origin of my success.

Interest in Art Deco in the 1960s brought Lempicka to an unprecedented level of visibility in the 1970s, attracting European collectors, Hollywood celebrities, art historians and critics.

Art Deco’s Bad Girl, Still Ahead of Her Time. ... “I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success,” she concluded late in life. “It was precise.

Established in 1988, The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF)–a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the art market and the preservation of cultural heritage–is widely regarded as ...

With her portraits of red-lipped women painted like sculptures in resplendent jewel tones, the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka has posthumously become an Art Deco icon. Her figures are sumptuous ...