Tamara de Lempicka
Musée des années 30
Musée des années 30,
Boulogne-Billancourt, 01 55 18
46 42, until 16 july 2006.
Figure henceforth legendary of Art Déco, portraitist
fashionable
of the high society between the two world wars, Tamara de Lempicka is a
painter except standards, except schools, whose universal images are
today reproduced and copied everywhere. The Museum of the Thirties
of Boulogne organizes finally the first great retrospective devoted to
this aristocrat of the painting, gathering more than 50 of
its paintings. To handle the event, the organizers of the exhibition
also reconstituted the interior of the famous Parisian studio of
Lempicka. After being famous in Paris New York of the turbid and
insane years, the artist dies in a semi anonymity in 1980.
Its romantic life follows the meanders of this agitated twentieth
century: Born in 1898 in Poland, she marries at 18 years with
the
Count de Lempicki of which she will leave an imposing portrait, then
leaves Russia for Paris when the revolution of October sets fire to the
bourgeoisie. She will again leave Paris for New York with its
second
husband, the baron Paul Kuffner. The essence of her work, her
major artistic signature, is during this Parisian time, between 1925
and 1940. Her portraits with the geometry's cubists
but nevertheless figurative carry an alive, bubbling, rare dynamics
almost in the
history of the portrait of art. The subjects often give the
impression which they are with narrow in the painting, that they wish
to
escape. Her masters, Maurice Denis and especially, Andre
Lhôte, will definitively inculcate the taste of this style to
her
which she will achieve until the perfection. After the second
world war, Art déco is not any more sails about it, Tamara
turns
to more mystical or more simple subjects, landscapes, natures died,
which will not be any success. It will have to be waited
until
1972 so that a Parisian gallery re-born the diva of interval wars
through her principal masterpieces. The universal homage does
not delay. Completed today by this official retrospective.
