Tamara Łempicka - The Straw Hat, 1930

The serigraph "The Straw Hat" issued in a limited edition of 100 copies has a certificate of authenticity confirmed with a dry seal by Tamara de Lempicka Estate LLC and bears Marisa de Lempicka's signature.

Łempicka's portraits are filled with eroticism and often depict the heroines immersed in pleasure. The work "The Straw Hat" presents a young blonde in a light white dress, with a bouquet of pink flowers, who through drooping eyelids gives herself up to sublimity. At the end of the 20th century, a talented, elegant, sexually insatiable woman was discovered in Łempicka, who loved to portray the same characters. Her work is both neo-classical and neo-baroque, as well as filled with expressionist anxiety, as evidenced by the above work.

Technique: serigraphy

Work dimensions: 60 x 46 [cm]

Dimensions in the frame: 102 x 89 [cm]

Limited edition of 100 copies

Frames: have been specially designed for the works of Tamara Łempicka. Their style refers to the years in which the artist created her paintings. The technology of making the frames is based on traditional gilding techniques. Silver flakes are placed manually on specially prepared, primed surfaces. The base primer is based on Bolognese chalk and organic adhesives, applied with a brush to specially prepared wooden surfaces. The final finish of the frames is shellac polishes applied with special tampons. The final layers of oil-pigment patinas give the frames a unique character and colors. Binding with an acid-free passe-partout and a bleached insert perfectly protects the paintings. The glass used is Belgian float 2 mm.

Tamara Łempicka (1898-1980) - Polish painter, whose work is the quintessence of the Art Deco style in painting. As a young girl, she studied at a boarding school in Lausanne, from where, thanks to her financial status, she could travel to Italy - she visited Venice, Florence, Rome - where she was fascinated by the painting of Renaissance masters. World War I found her in St. Petersburg, where she married a young lawyer, Tadeusz Łempicki. In 1918, the couple moved to Paris. Łempicka then began painting studies at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere and at the Academie Ranson with Maurice Denis and Andrea Lothe. Her works could be found in Paris salons. She mainly painted nudes and portraits, mainly of beautiful and wealthy people. In 1928, she visited Warsaw three times, where an exhibition of her works was held at Zachęta; while she showed the next two paintings at the General National Exhibition in Poznań. In 1939, fleeing World War II, she left for the United States and settled in New York, spending the last years of her life in Mexico.