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DOC.012
Barchan. Lempicka with a beret

Circa 1927
B & W print on paper



Lempicka is seated on a stool of her own lacquer decor design (see below, the bed belonging to the same furniture set [DOC.23 and DOC.25). It was a fellow countryman, Pawel Barchan, who took both this photo and the one preceding it.

 

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1978 - Private collection - France

 

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1981 - Walter Haas: Art Déco, le Style Moderne
          Zürich, Switzerland

 

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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.

 
 -1927
Chronology

D'Annunzio suggested that she paint his portrait. In order to avoid his advances she was obliged to make her escape one morning at dawn. She produced her first cover for the leading German fashion magazine Die Dame.

 

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