Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980). Portrait of Mrs. Rufus Bush, 1929. Oil on canvas, 48 1/16 x 26 in. (122 x 66 cm). Private collection, courtesy of Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum © 2024 Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, NY Photo: RoseBudz Productions, Courtesy of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout

When in 1916 Tamara married Tadeusz Lempicki (pronounced “Wem-pitski”), a Polish nobleman and a lawyer appointed at the Russian Imperial Court in St. Petersburg, it seemed that her future was on a settled course. She would be the beautiful wife of a handsome lawyer and raise her newborn daughter Marie Christine, nicknamed Kizette, in the safety and luxury of the high-society household of her aunt, who was married to a St. Petersburg banker.

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6 Comments

  1. Thank you for bringing Tamara to life again! My art teacher during my fashion days introduced me to her original style. I loved to attempt to create fashion illustrations with markers using her sharp/smooth angles of light and bright colors! What a fabulous artist.
    xo Jennifer

    1. She was one of my favorite artists when I was in college. I have to large books of many of her paintings. They have made it through all the moves…including when I went from 10,000 to 1,000 books and the deep state operators stole 2,000 books that we were selling on line. Can you imagine. Very dirty.

  2. Thank you for bringing Tamara to life again! My art teacher during my fashion days introduced me to her original style. I loved to attempt to create fashion illustrations with markers using her sharp/smooth angles of light and bright colors! What a fabulous artist.
    xo Jennifer

    1. She was one of my favorite artists when I was in college. I have to large books of many of her paintings. They have made it through all the moves…including when I went from 10,000 to 1,000 books and the deep state operators stole 2,000 books that we were selling on line. Can you imagine. Very dirty.

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