Tamara De Lempicka
Art Deco Diva
The Google Doodle of May 16, 2018 in celebration of what would have been her 120th birthday was broadcast to 14 nations along with her pictures and bio. It stated: “Few artists embodied the exuberant roaring twenties like Tamara de Lempicka. Her fast-paced opulent lifestyle manifests itself perfectly into the stylized Art Deco subjects she celebrated in her painting.”
The famous German designer Wolfgang Joop, one of her earliest collectors said, “Tamara de Lempicka was the first Pop Star of the century.”
Tamara de Lempicka and Madonna: the singer is the most fervent collector, finding inspiration in Tamara’s daring and heroic life with parallels to her own. Other collectors like Barbra Streisand, Jack Nicholson and Sir Tim Rice as well as designers like Wolfgang Joop and Donna Karan have spearheaded her auction phenomenon.
The Portrait of Marjorie Ferry 1932, the first woman artist featured on the Christie’s London auction catalog, as reported in the Feb. 10, 2020, Wall Street Journal, established a new auction record for Lempicka: $21.2 million. This is the second highest price ever paid for a painting by a female artist.
Her life reads like a mix of “Gone with the Wind” with “The Great Gatsby.” There are a feature length movie and a miniseries about her life in the works, as well as a Musical, on its way to Broadway called “Lempicka.”
“Tamara the Living Movie” concluded as the longest-running play in Los Angeles where Angelica Houston played Tamara, as well as a six-year run in New York.
She never could have dreamed of the technological miracles of the 21st century that are taking her art to new worldwide audiences: immersive experiences with holograms, projections, and music. She would have loved that as she loved to travel and was interested in people from every country and every walk of life.
One of her favorite quotes was, “It doesn’t matter how it begins, if it ends well.”
Since she died in Cuernavaca, Mexico at the age of 82, she has had 14 major solo retrospective exhibitions in Asia, Europe, and Mexico. Her catalogue raisonee has located more than 500 paintings and 250 drawings and we especially hope to locate one stolen by the Nazis, featured in the European series, “Lost Art” and many more that have disappeared during the Russian Revolution, the Spanish Civil war and Two world wars which took place during her lifetime.
We have built this website to communicate with her fans and to remind everyone that although “imitation is a form of flattery,” we as heirs are exclusive copyright holders to her name, likeness, life rights and images which lasts 70 years after her death.
If you should want to license the images for products or partner with us for advertising or another venture born of your imagination, please contact us through this website.
We are committed to overseeing the fidelity of the reproductions in terms of quality and color as only we know and have seen the original colors that she used, derived from mineral pigments, so very hard to reproduce in today’s digital world.
“There are no miracles.
There is only what you make.”
—Tamara de Lempicka quote
“I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.”
—Tamara de Lempicka Quote
Tamara de lempicka biography
We knew Tamara personally and very intimately. We are committed to carrying on her legacy with all the respect, class, and intelligence that she would have wanted. Furthermore, we have a dream to improve the lives of many women refugees, entrepreneurs, and artists around the world that are going through some of the same hardships that she had to face. If you have a favorite non-profit that you would like to suggest, we would love to hear from you.
