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DOC.061
Joffé. Lempicka, Fur coat, jewelry, cigarette

Circa 1938
B & W print on paper
28 x 23 cm
11 x 9 in
Photo Joffé (stamp on the back of the proof)

In this somewhat overdone portrait, taken shortly before her departure for the States, Baronness Kuffner seems quite determined to make the most of life's vanities. Fur coat, gloves, hat, diamonds, pearls, and cigarette: what more would it take to assuage the camera's cringing sycophancy?

 

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

 

Exhibitions

1997 - Hiroshima Museum of Arts. Tamara de Lempicka
          Tokyo-Hiroshima, Japan

 

Bibliography

DE LEMPICKA-FOXHALL K. & PHILLIPS C., Passion by Design, The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka
          Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, 1987
OLMEDO, Casas & Gente
          N. Sanchez-Osorio, Mexico, 1989
BLONDEL A. & HIROHI U., Tamara de Lempicka
          Brain Trust. Tokyo, 1997

 

History

 
Images of TAMARA
Biography, Psychology

Never had an artist been so preoccupied with her own image as Lempicka: she herself did many self-portraits, and, more especially, spent hours to sitting for photographers, where she would take on the attitude of a professional model. Her long stay in Hollywood, and all her efforts to penetrate the movie world, suggest that she longed to be in the "spotlight". Her "screen test" - with the newsreel producers Pathé in 1932 - shows a supremely self-assured image of her coming down the staircase of her rue Méchain studio, flourishing a seemingly endless cigarette-holder.

 
 -1938
Chronology

De Lempicka regained her taste for living. She convinced her husband to sell his properties in Hungary, perhaps through an intuition of trouble brewing in Europe. Her plan to move to the United States encouraged her to sever all links with the old continent. In her studio she took up more ambitious subjects in preparation for the relaunch of her career in America.

 

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