Tamara de Lempicka Research

Tamara de Lempicka was a Polish art deco painter and the first female artist to be a glamour star. Lempicka was born on May 16th 1898 in Warsaw, in partitioned Poland. She moved to Russia in 1912 where she lived until the Bolsheviks arrested her husband in 1917 during the Russian Revolution. She secured his release and they fled to Paris, where she enrolled at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere and studied privately.
She is highly sought after as a portrait artist and is thought to be the most famous painter of the art deco period.

The Straw Hat (1930)