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Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)
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Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) Tamara de Lempicka is born Tamara Gorska in Warsaw, Poland's capital and under Tsarist domination for over a hundred years. Wealthy parents, finishing school and European vacations sculpted the first years of her life. She married Tadeusz Limpicki in 1916 in fashionable Petrograd, the year the Russian Empire vanished. In 1917, the Bolsheviks arrested Limpicki. With a dazzling display of courage and sensuality, she secured the necessary favors from the officials, and was able to free her husband, whom she loved. Portrait d'homme, inachevé, 1928. Musée Georges Pompidou, Paris After this happened, and they had moved to Paris, Limpicki refused to work. He felt second best next to the wife who had rescued him, and felt insignificant. This first leaded Tamara to desperation, and then anger. She decided to do something for herself, her husband, and their unborn child: She started to paint. She had definite talent,...
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