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DOC.023
Bed

Circa 1926
Engraved lacquer



The furniture Lempicka designed for her bedroom in the flat on rue Guy de Maupassant has all disappeared. According to her daughter Kizette, the harmony achieved for the lacquer decor consisted of gold and silver, against a gray background. The decoration on the headboard of her bed was boldly sapphic, judging from the preliminary sketch of it (A.27).

 

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1926 - Unknown collection - 

 

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Bibliography

FRIZOT, Le Passé Composé- Les 6 x 13 de J.-H. Lartigue
          P.U.F., Paris, 1987

 

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The apartment on RUE GUY DE MAUPASSANT
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In 1925, Lempicka took up residence at 5 rue Guy de Maupassant in Paris (16e arrondissement). Her decor for this studio-apartment was imbued with a certain dramatic effect.
A photograph by Jacques-Henri Lartigue gives us one view of the bedroom (see "Jacques-Henri LARTIGUE"), where, under the painting "Portrait of the Duchess of La Salle" (B.72), the carved lacquer bed decor - based on a sketch by Lempicka of a sapphic scene - boldly strikes the eye. A closet and stool (not to be seen in this photo) existed in the same carved lacquer scheme. The furniture has since disappeared.

 

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