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Lempicka, Tamara Tamara in the Green Bugatti self-portrait 1925 (above)

Artist, painter. Born in Poland 1898. Studied art with Maurice Denis and Andre L. Hote in Paris, France. In 1925, Count Emmaneula di Castelbasco arranged for her first exhibition in Milan, Italy at the Bategrade de Poesia. Since then her paintings have been exhibited and prized throughout the great art centers of Europe and the United States. In 1937, her painting "L'Enfant en Balcon" received a "prix d'houneur" at the Exposition Internationale des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux, France. In 1929, "La Communiante" was awarded a medal at the International Exposition at Poznan, Poland. At the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, her painting "The Old Musician" shows her remarkable talent and masterful technique. There is a deep religious note in many of Mme. de Lempicka's paintings. She has painted many famous persons: the late King Alfonso of Spain, Queen Elizabeth of Greece, Gabriel d'Annunzio. When she works in her studio -- the old King Vidor estate in Hollywood, where she lives with her husband, the Baron de Kuffner -- she has a dozen paintings in work at the same time.
Address: King Vidor estate, Hollywood, Cal.
[Ed. Died in 1980]

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943

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