Painter born in Poland in 1898. Moved to Paris in 1918 together with her first husband Tadeusz de Lempicki to study art.
By 1925 she had made a name for herself with a number of portrait s in her typical cubistic style, rendering her subjects as aggregates of geometric primitives, somewhat similar to modern computer-generated, NURBS-based graphics.
In 1939, Tamara moved to the US, the centre of modern art at the time, with her second husband, Baron Raoul Kuffner, to reach a larger audience and to find new inspiration.
Whilst the move to the US did further her career, her artistic output was decreasing, and after a brief unproductive period her works became more abstract and landscape s replaced the portraits as her most common motif.
Tamara de Lempicka died in 1980.
Some of her most popular works include:
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Autoritratto, or Tamara in the Green Bugatti
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Portrait of a Man, an incomplete portrait of her first husband Tadeusz de Lempicki.