Tamara de Lempicka – New Art Book and the First Museum Retrospective in the US

Art Book

Tamara de Lempicka – ‘Published on the occasion of the 2024 exhibition Tamara de Lempicka [at the de Young in San Francisco], this essential volume presents the full arc of Lempicka’s career, including more than one hundred works and an in-depth exploration of her drawings’. – The de Young

Tamara de Lempicka
Edited by Gioia Mori and Furio Rinaldi with Alison de Lima Greene and Laura L. Camerlengo
with a text by Françoise Gilot and a preface by Barbra Streisand
Pages: 272
Publication date: October 2024
Copublisher: Yale University Press
Edition: Hardcover
ISBN 978-0-300-27850-7

Tamara de Limpicka – The First Museum Retrospective in the US

Tamara de Limpicka runs from October 12, 2024, to February 9, 2025, at the de Young. The exhibition will then travel to Houston and be on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from March 9 through May 26, 2025.

This exhibition — the first major museum retrospective of Lempicka in the United States — explores the artist’s distinctive style and unconventional life through four major chapters. The more than 100 artworks on display range from her post-Cubist work in 1920s Paris to her most famous nudes and portraits to the melancholic still lifes and interiors of her final days in the United States and Mexico.

About Tamara de Limpicka

Tamara de Limpicka (1894–1980) is of Polish and Russian origins, during her career as a painter she was married twice and had a number other relationships including female lovers. She lived and worked in France, Italy, and the United States. Tamara de Limpicka’s particular artistic style focuses on her Jewish heritage, her expression of gender, and her sexuality.