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Birth
1890 (Warsaw, Poland)
Death
1980 (Cuernavaca, Mexico)
Lived/Active
California / France
Subject to Copyright
Often Known For
art deco female figure, notable portrait painting
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Art Deco
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Tamara de Lempicka is best known for her Art Deco-styled portraits of
sexy, bedroom-eyed women in stylish dress and haunting poses. Her
clear, strong style, sometimes called Soft Cubism, earned her a place
at the top of the Art-Deco movement.
Her life is a dramatic
story itself. Married twice to wealthy men, she moved from her
native Poland to Russia, and then to Paris. In 1918, she studied
painting at the Academe de la Grand Chaumiere, and was privately
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