Described by one of her earliest collectors as the “first pop star of the century,” Tamara de Lempicka created colorful paintings that radiate with Art Deco's signature blend of elegance and modernity.
Born in Poland at the turn of the 20th century, Lempicka was forced to flee to France in 1918 after the beginning of the Russian Revolution. During a visit to Italy in her youth, she became enraptured by the Italian Old Masters. Inspired by this formative experience, Lempicka enrolled in Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris to take up painting.
Lempicka studied under famed avant-garde artists Maurice Denis and André Lhote, who introduced her to Cubism, and she began exhibiting at the Parisian salons as early as 1922. Lempicka became a fixture in Parisian high society, spending much of her time hosting wealthy elites in her atelier on Rue Méchain.
Exceptional floral still-lifes by Lempicka epitomize the artist's talent for capturing sensual beauty, no matter her chosen subject or style. During the early 1960s, works such as Le bouquet de lilas (Bouquet of Lilacs) show how she masterfully used color and texture to create a remarkable sense of depth in her still-life paintings. Ever the adventurer, Lempicka began exploring new painting techniques even at this mature stage of her career. She used her palette knife as one of her main implements, creating new textures and ways of directly applying color in her works.
With a resurgence of appreciation for the Art Deco period, combined with the success of her retrospective at Galerie de Luxembourg in 1971, Lempicka’s work has achieved remarkable acclaim in recent decades. Much of her work resides in museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée des Beaux-Arts du Havre, and the National Museum Warsaw, among others.
Alain Blondel, the esteemed French author who compiled the artist’s catalogue raisonné, wrote fondly of Lempicka’s uniqueness: “Tamara de Lempicka will always continue to defy categorization. Her art and her life destiny do not fit into the usual framework for 20th-century artists. The idea that art could be a profession was foreign to Lempicka. Her life and her painting were too closely intertwined for that.”
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(Biography provided by M.S. Rau)
Printemps
By Tamara de Lempicka
Located in OPOLE, PL
Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980) - Printemps Silkscreen / Serigraph from 1994-1996. The edition of 175. Dimensions of work: 43.2 x 33 cm. Publisher: DK Art Publishing, Inc., Los A...
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Femme a la Colombe
By Tamara de Lempicka
Located in OPOLE, PL
Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980) - Femme a la Colombe Silkscreen / Serigraph from 1994-1996. The edition of 175. Dimensions of work: 43.2 x 33 cm. Publisher: DK Art Publishing, Inc...
Screen
$1,000
H 8.25 in W 6 in
Taku Obata Signed And Numbered Art Book Zine Edition of 200 Street Art Japan
Located in Draper, UT
Taku Obata Signed And Numbered Art Book Zine Edition of 200 Street Art Japan. Thick heavy stock paper with vibrant inks. 8 1/4 × 6 in 21 × 15.2 cm Edition 1...
Screen
$2,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 16.5 in W 11.35 in
Over Thinking Will Fucking Kill You Screen Print CB HOYO Urban Art Street
By CB Hoyo
Located in Draper, UT
CB Hoyo’s irreverent multidisciplinary practice—which spans painting, sculpture, and installation—approaches art-world fraud, forgery, and hype with a sense of humor. The self-taught...
Screen
$7,000
H 7.5 in W 9.25 in D 2 in
Jasper Johns - "To the Fine Arts" First Day Cover (Hand Signed by Jasper Johns)
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Original First Day Cover (FDC) issued by the US Post Office, and postmarked with a dateline of Washington, D.C. on December 2, 1964. Hand signed in black ink by Jasper Johns The FDC ...
Offset, Embossed Print
$2,250
H 35 in W 29.5 in
Weapon Of Choice (Grey Variant) by Nuno Viegas & Fanakapan Collaboration
Located in Draper, UT
NUNO VIEGAS & Nuno Viegas "WEAPON OF CHOICE" Grey Variant Edition of 20. 22 COLOUR SCREEN PRINT ON SOMERSET 330 GSM PAPER. EDITION OF 20 87 X 75 CM ...
Screen
$476Sale Price|20% Off
H 60 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Caribbean Window I (Limited Edition Print)
By Mauro Oliveira
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Limited edition of 30 museum quality Giclee prints on CANVAS, signed and numbered by the artist. Print lead time 1 week. A "Certificate of Authenticity" issued by the artist is inc...
Giclée
Paul Insect "Cosomodela" Diamond Dust Contemporary Art
By Paul Insect
Located in Draper, UT
Paul Insect’s bright, multi-textured collages feature cropped portraits, patterned color fields, benday dots, and decorative elements such as diamond dust ...
Varnish, Satin Paper, Screen
$650
H 36 in W 24 in
Shepard Fairey Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite Signed & Dated Print France Street
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
"I originally created this image in response to the terror attacks at the Bataclan and other parts of Paris in late 2015. At that terrible moment I wanted to create an image of suppo...
Lithograph
$1,100
H 24 in W 18 in
Cut It Up "Do It Yourself" Shepard Fairey Screenprint Street Art
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
Sold exclusively at Beyond The Streets New York, in-Store only. "The Cut it Up - Do it Yourself print is an iteration of my Obey Icon Face inspired by my history of using an X-acto k...
Screen
$1,350
H 20 in W 28 in
Radiohead Silkcreen Concert Print Toronto Signed Contemporary Street Art 2003
Located in Draper, UT
Radiohead Print Toronto Signed Materials: Screenprint Size 20 × 28 in 50.8 × 71.1 cm Rarity Edition of 500 Near Mint Condition. Signature: Show print from the Skydome in Toronto, ...
Screen
$1,200Sale Price|20% Off
H 36 in W 24 in
The Terminator By Artist Tyler Stout Arnold Schwarzenegger James Cameron Print
By Tyler Stout
Located in Draper, UT
The Terminator by Tytler Stout Silkscreed Print Arnold Schwarzenegger “I’ve found it works best to do stuff for movies you’re a fan of, movies that have stood the test of time, that are considered classics, stuff that inspires you,” Stout told io9 over email. “My movie fandom starts mainly in the 1980s since that was my childhood. Terminator is 1984, so it’s towards the beginning of that era, early Arnie, Lance Henriksen, Michael Biehn, James Cameron. Just seemed a more logical choice than, say, Terms of Endearment. Which will be [my] next poster. Part of our Debra Winger...
Screen
$750
H 10 in W 8 in D 2.5 in
FAILE X BAST Brooklyn Museum Show Savage/Sacred Young Minds Street Art
By Faile
Located in Draper, UT
Silkscreen On Paperback Book 10 × 8 × 2 in 25.4 × 20.3 × 5.1 cm Edition 164/300 Materials Silkscreen On Paperback Book Size 10 × 8 × 2 in 25.4 × 20.3 × 5.1 cm Rarity Limited edit...
Screen
$1,000
H 11 in W 8 in D 0.25 in
Signed "At the Ashmolean" 72 Page Catalogue by Jeff Koons Contemporary Fine Art
By Jeff Koons
Located in Draper, UT
Additional Info: One of the biggest and most recognizable artist's of our time. Signature: Signed By The Artist In Marker, Jeff Koons. Provenance: Receipt From The Ashmolean Museum....
Magazine Paper
The Blue Scarf, 1930
By Tamara de Lempicka
Located in OPOLE, PL
Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980) - The Blue Scarf, 1930 Giclée from 2023. The edition no. 2 out of 100. Dimensions of work: 70 x 52.5 cm. Publisher: Chelsea Green Editions. High-q...
Giclée