Passion by Design

The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka

Baroness Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall

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Abbeville
01 February 2021

Art & Architecture; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Art & design styles: Art Deco; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

An attractive new hardcover edition of the classic biography of Tamara de Lempicka, whose paintings defined Art Deco and whose life epitomised the Jazz Age.

As F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed the mad glories of the 1920s on the printed page, Tamara de Lempicka (18981980) captured them on canvas. A seductive Garbo-esque beauty with an irresistible force of personality, this refugee of the Russian Revolution successively conquered Paris, Hollywood, and New York with coruscating portraits of the world's rich and famous. Her Art Deco paintings earned for her a life more fabulously excessive than anything Fitzgerald dreamed of.

Passion by Design, authored by Tamara de Lempicka's own daughter, is an intimate look at a fascinating personality, and remains the best account of her life and work. This new edition is illustrated with vibrant colour reproductions of her finest paintings, as well as exclusive photographs from family albums. An additional chapter by Victoria de Lempicka, the artist's granddaughter, explores the ever-evolving legacy of Tamara de Lempicka, from the record eight-figure price fetched by her painting La Tunique rose in November 2019 to the new musical based on her life.

AUTHOR: Baroness Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall, the daughter of Tamara de Lempicka, enjoyed an unequaled firsthand knowledge of her mother's life and exclusive access to her papers.

100 illustrations

By: Baroness Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall
Imprint: Abbeville
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Revised ed.
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 837g
ISBN: 9780789213754
ISBN 10: 0789213753
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 February 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Baroness Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall, the daughter of Tamara de Lempicka, enjoyed an unequalled firsthand knowledge of her mother's life and exclusive access to her papers.