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Title: Passion by Design: The Art & Times of Tamara de Lempicka
Author: DE LEMPICKA-FOXHALL KIZETTE
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/02/2021
Imprint: ABBEVILLE PRESS
Price: $60.00
Publishing status: Active
An attractive new hardcover edition of the classic biography of Tamara de Lempicka, whose
paintings defined Art Deco and whose life epitomised the Jazz Age.
As F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed the mad glories of the 1920s on the printed page, Tamara de
Lempicka (18981980) captured them on canvas. A seductive Garbo-esque beauty with an
irresistible force of personality, this refugee of the Russian Revolution successively conquered
Paris, Hollywood, and New York with coruscating portraits of the world’s rich and famous. Her Art
Deco paintings earned for her a life more fabulously excessive than anything Fitzgerald dreamed
of.
Passion by Design, authored by Tamara de Lempicka’s own daughter, is an intimate look at a
fascinating personality, and remains the best account of her life and work. This new edition is
illustrated with vibrant colour reproductions of her finest paintings, as well as exclusive
photographs from family albums. An additional chapter by Victoria de Lempicka, the artist’s
granddaughter, explores the ever-evolving legacy of Tamara de Lempicka, from the record
eight-figure price fetched by her painting La Tunique rose in November 2019 to the new musical
based on her life.
Baroness Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall, the daughter of Tamara de Lempicka, enjoyed an
unequaled firsthand knowledge of her mother’s life and exclusive access to her papers.
100 illustrations
ISBN: 9780789213754
Dimension: 229mm X 178mm