The actress and artist Kara Wilson performed Deco Diva, a one-woman stage play based on Lempicka's life
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Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara Łempicka, known outside Poland as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.
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culture · Polish painter (1894–1980) · painter · artist · also Tamara de Lempicka, T. de Lempicka, Tamara née Gorska, Tamara De Lempicka, Tamara Gorska, Tamara DeLempicka
Born 16 May 1898 · Died 18 March 1980 · Q229351
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2004· 1 entry
Following the death of Joan (now Vanderpool)
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1998· 1 entry
“Drowned World/Substitute for Love”
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1980· 1 entry
Died 1980-03-18.
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1979· 1 entry
Kizette moved to Cuernavaca to take care of de Lempicka, whose health was declining
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1974· 1 entry
Decided to move to Cuernavaca, Mexico
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1963· 1 entry
Lempicka moved to Houston, Texas, to be with Kizette and her family and retired from her life as a professional artist
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1960· 1 entry
Began to paint abstract works and to use a palette knife instead of her smooth earlier brushwork
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1943· 1 entry
Baron Kuffner and de Lempicka relocated to New York City
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1939· 1 entry
And her husband moved to the United States and she painted celebrity portraits, as well as still lifes and, in the 1960s, some abstract paintings
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1933· 2 entries
Traveled to Chicago, where her paintings were shown alongside those of Georgia O'Keeffe, Santiago Martínez Delgado, and Willem de Kooning
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Łempicka married Kuffner in 1934, and thereafter she became known in the press as "The Baroness with a Brush"
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1929· 3 entries
Lempicka painted one of her best-known works, Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti), for the cover of the German fashion magazine Die Dame
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Another portrait of Kizette, at her First Communion, won a bronze medal at the international exposition in Poznań, Poland
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To paint a portrait of Joan Jeffery, the fiancée of the American oilman Rufus T
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1928· 1 entry
Became the mistress of Baron Raoul Kuffner, a wealthy art collector from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, divorcing Tadeusz Łempicki that same year
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1927· 1 entry
Lempicka won her first major award, the first prize at the Exposition Internationale des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux, France, for her portrait of Kizette on the Balcony
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1925· 1 entry
With the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, which later gave its name to the style Art Deco
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1915· 1 entry
Met and fell in love with a prominent Polish lawyer, Tadeusz Łempicki (1888–1951)
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1912· 1 entry
Chose to spend the summer with her wealthy Aunt Stefa in Saint Petersburg
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1911· 1 entry
Her parents sent her to a boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, but she was bored and she feigned illness to be permitted to leave the school
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-05-16.
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1891· 1 entry
In the Warsaw congregation of the Polish Reformed Church; Tamara and her two siblings, Stanisław and Adrianna, were baptized as Protestant converts at Moscow's Reformed Church in 1897
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