Tamara de Lempicka: Modern Maverick
Presentation by Alison de Lima Greene, Houston (TX)
Join curator Alison de Lima Greene for an introduction to the remarkable arc of Lempicka’s career as she rose to the pinnacle of café society in 1920s and 1930s Paris, and her American odyssey after she fled Europe in 1939. Image above: Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of a Young Woman in a Blue Dress, 1922, oil on canvas, private collection © 2025 Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, NY, Image © 2023 Christie's Images Limited Capturing the glamour and vitality of 1920s postwar Paris and the cosmopolitan sheen of Hollywood celebrity, Tamara de Lempicka (1894–1980) infused her paintings with a brilliant sense of fashion, design, and the theatrical. Currently the [...]
