De Lempicka won public acclaim for her one-woman show at the Bottega di Poesia in Milan, organised by Count Emmanuele di Castelbarco. During a prolonged stay in the city she made the acqaintance of a number of italian aristocrats with influence in the art world.

Cuno Hofer was the proud owner of the largest (in format) work ever to leave the artist's studio. In an interview for the Italian journal Cose, in March 1933, Lempicka described Hofer as "a famous Swiss writer, who met tragic death two years before in Saint Moritz." Hofer must have been a shrewd collector as well, one who appreciated the Neue Sachlichkeit trend, judging from the fact that he had Davringhausen do his portrait in 1922. (Collection Barry Friedman, New York).