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Passion by design : the art and times of Tamara de Lempicka / by Baroness Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall as told to Charles Phillips ; introduction by Marisa De Lempicka.
Fine Arts Library ND237.L545 D4 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Lempicka-Foxhall, Kizette, Baroness, 1916-2001, author.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Lempicka, Tamara de, 1898-1980.
- Lempicka, Tamara de.
- Painters--United States--Biography.
- Painters.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second resived edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Abbeville Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- An attractive new hardcover edition of the classic biography of Tamara de Lempicka, whose paintings defined Art Deco and whose life epitomised the Jazz Age.0As F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed the mad glories of the 1920s on the printed page, Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) captured them on canvas. A seductive Garbo-esque beauty with an irresistible force of personality, this refugee of the Russian Revolution successively conquered Paris, Hollywood, and New York with coruscating portraits of the world's rich and famous. Her Art Deco paintings earned for her a life more fabulously excessive than anything Fitzgerald dreamed of.0Passion by Design, authored by Tamara de Lempicka's own daughter, is an intimate look at a fascinating personality, and remains the best account of her life and work. This new edition is illustrated with vibrant colour reproductions of her finest paintings, as well as exclusive photographs from family albums. An additional chapter by Victoria de Lempicka, the artist's granddaughter, explores the ever-evolving legacy of Tamara de Lempicka, from the record eight-figure price fetched by her painting La Tunique Rose in November 2019 to the new musical based on her life.
- Contents:
- Out of the past : Paris, 1969-1972
- Une petite grosse : Warsaw, 1898-1916
- To the Finland Station : Petrograd, 1917-1918
- The hunger : Paris, 1918-1923
- A perverse ingres : Paris, 1923-1925
- La donna d'oro : Italy, 1926-1927
- The life of gesture : Paris, 1927-1930
- Dé jà vu : Paris, 1931-1939
- The Baroness : Hollywood and New York, 1940-1962
- Heartbreak tango : Houston, 1963-1978
- Under the volcano : Guernavaca, 1978-1980
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Editor of the second edition: David Fabricant.
- Originally published: New York : Abbeville Press, 1987.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0789213753
- 9780789213754
- OCLC:
- 1143618988
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