A.218

circa1956

Aquatint

(Femme au turban)

Aquatint after "The Orange Turban". See B.262.

Collections

1990 - Private collection - U.S.A.

Auctions

07/06/1993 - ?. Ketterer Kunst, # 806 $ 0
28/05/1994 - ?. De Vuyst, # 101 $ 0
24/03/1994 - PARIS. Briest, # 165 $ 539

B.323

circa1953

Oil on canvas

(Composition abstraite avec grappe)

Reverting to "Autumn" (B.324), here, the composition has been compressed lengthwise, lest it be the opposite! In either case, the process involved is a strange one.

Collections

1988 - Private collection - U.S.A.

Auctions

17/02/1988 - NEW YORK. Sotheby's Arcade “1232”, # 11 $ 7 975

B.324

circa1953

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (in a cartouche bottom right)

(L'Automne *)

An anamorphic work enlarging upon "Abstract Composition with Grape Bunch" (B.323).

Collections

1992 - Collection of Mr. et Mrs. Augier - France

Exhibitions

1972 - Galerie du Luxembourg, "Tamara de Lempicka de 1925 à 1935", Paris, France
1997 - Hiroshima Museum of Arts. Tamara de Lempicka, Tokyo-Hiroshima, Japan

Auctions

25/02/1992 - NEW YORK. Christie's “Cavallini-7408”, # 64 $ 18 000
11/07/1992 - ARLES. F. Holz, # 194 $ 56 600

B.325

circa1953

Oil on canvas

(Composition abstraite à la clé)

Despite a new key, the enigma remains in its entirety.

Collections

1994 - Private collection - U.S.A.

Auctions

29/09/1994 - NEW YORK. Sotheby's Arcade "1482", # 110 $ 6 325

B.326

circa1953

Oil on canvas

(Composition abstraite)

In a first circa ion, the string was held by a hand depicted in realist manner, making a composite work - half abstract, half figurative - of this composition.

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

B.327

circa1953

Oil on wood panel

T.DE LEMPICKA. (bottom right)

(Composition abstraite à l'immeuble)

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

B.328

circa1953

Oil on canvas

T.DE LEMPICKA. (artist's stamp bottom right)

(Composition abstraite bleue et noire)

Refers back to "Abstract Composition with Building" (B.327), this time without the windows.

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

B.329

circa1953

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (in a cartouche bottom right)

(Composition abstraite à la balustrade)

The back of the painting bears a label referring to the "Section Musicalistes, Abstraits, Non-figuratifs du Salon des Artistes Indépendants".

Collections

1987 - Private collection - France

Exhibitions

1972 - Galerie du Luxembourg, "Tamara de Lempicka de 1925 à 1935", Paris, France

Auctions

27/11/1987 - PARIS. Charbonneaux., # 25 $ 33 333

B.330

circa1953

Oil on canvas

(Femme et enfant, abstrait)

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

B.331

circa1953

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA (top right)

(Deux personnages agenouillés)

Collections

1965 - Private collection - U.S.A.

Auctions

02/04/1981 - NEW YORK. Sotheby's “4570”, # 128 $ 0

B.332

circa1953

Oil on canvas

(La liseuse II)

An abstract circa ion of a subject previously handled in conventional manner (see "The Reader", B.300). The interlaced lines yield the outline of the young lady reading.

Collections

1953 - Unknown collection -

B.333

circa1953

Oil on canvas

T.L.28 (bottom right)

(Composition abstraite)

Here, as in many cases where Lempicka signed her numerous works in her last years, the date given beside the monogram is most unreliable. The published photo of this work was taken before the artist had signed the painting.

Collections

1953 - Unknown collection -

B.334

circa1953

Oil on canvas

(Composition abstraite aux nuages)

A composition reminiscent of Arcimboldo.

Collections

1953 - Unknown collection -

B.335

circa1953

Oil on canvas

T.LEMPICKA. (top left)

(Composition abstraite en rouge et bleu I)

Collections

1990 - Private collection - France

Auctions

18/02/1990 - PARIS. Charbonneaux., # 22 $ 10 400

B.336

circa1953

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (bottom right)

(Composition abstraite en rouge et bleu II)

Collections

1980 - Private collection - France

Exhibitions

1981 - Seibu, "Tamara de Lempicka", Tokyo-Osaka, Japan

B.337

circa1953

Oil on canvas on cardboard

(La grand-mère)

The lower part, left in white, shows the drawing that explains this work: a little girl is learning how to draw with her grandmother. The autobiographical nature of this unfinished painting is no secret.

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

B.338

circa1953

Oil on canvas

(Figure d’homme tourmenté)

This is the portrait of the artist's valet, a man of rather indelicate nature, as was the tradition in the family.

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

B.339

circa1953

Oil on canvas

(Etude pour le portrait de Gino Puglisi)

Collections

1950 - Purchased directly by Mr. Gino Puglisi - Italy
1992 - Private collection -

B.340

circa1953

Oil on canvas

T.DE LEMPICKA. (artist's stamp bottom right)

(Portrait de Gino Puglisi)

Collections

1996 - Private collection - U.S.A.

History

Gino PUGLISI, Family or close friend: Gino Puglisi was born in 1898, the same year as Lempicka; he died in Rome in 1992. Lempicka and Puglisi met in 1933, and the latter remained the artist's most faithful friend to the day of her death. He was a pilot who lived in Sicily (Catane), where he is said to have directed an art gallery. He moved to Rome in 1950. Besides works by Tamara de Lempicka, he also collected pieces by Maryette Lydis, Madeleine Luka, and Marie Laurencin.

Auctions

05/07/1988 - PARIS. Renaud, # 24 $ 7 900
16/04/1996 - PARIS. Tajan, Drouot Montaigne, # 161 $ 20 588

B.341

circa1954

Oil on cardboard

LEMPICKA. (top left)

(Portrait de Gino Puglisi)

Collections

1955 - Purchased directly by Mr. Gino Puglisi - Italy
1992 - Private collection -

History

Gino PUGLISI, Family or close friend: Gino Puglisi was born in 1898, the same year as Lempicka; he died in Rome in 1992. Lempicka and Puglisi met in 1933, and the latter remained the artist's most faithful friend to the day of her death. He was a pilot who lived in Sicily (Catane), where he is said to have directed an art gallery. He moved to Rome in 1950. Besides works by Tamara de Lempicka, he also collected pieces by Maryette Lydis, Madeleine Luka, and Marie Laurencin.

B.342

circa1954

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (bottom left)

(Portrait de Jacques Rosselli I)

Collections

1954 - Purchased directly by Mr. Jacques Rossel - France
1988 - Private collection - France

Auctions

05/12/1988 - PARIS. Cornette de St C. , # 70 $ 11 667

B.343

circa1954

Oil on canvas

(Portrait de Jacques Rosselli II)

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

B.344

circa1954

Oil on canvas

(Portrait de Kizette adulte I)

Collections

1997 - Barry Friedman Ltd. - U.S.A.

History

Her Daughter KIZETTE, Family or close friend: Lempicka gave birth to her daughter at a very young age. Quite early on, she used Kizette as a model, painting her through a marvelling eye. The five large-scale portraits she did of Kizette, between 1923 and 1933, remain among the most noteworthy of her artistic accomplishments. Baroness de Lempicka-Foxhall, as Kizette has now become, gathered together her recollections and, with the help of Charles Phillips, published them in the form of a biography in 1987: Passion by Design, The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka, op.cit.

Auctions

14/11/1989 - NEW YORK. Christie's East“Viking -6909”, # 217 $ 5 800
12/07/1990 - PARIS. Cornette de St C. , # 50 $ 15 900
26/05/1991 - circa AILLES. Perrin, R., L. Hôt. des C-L, # 118 $ 8 700

B.345

circa1954

Oil on canvas

(Portrait de Kizette adulte II)

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

History

Her Daughter KIZETTE, Family or close friend: Lempicka gave birth to her daughter at a very young age. Quite early on, she used Kizette as a model, painting her through a marvelling eye. The five large-scale portraits she did of Kizette, between 1923 and 1933, remain among the most noteworthy of her artistic accomplishments. Baroness de Lempicka-Foxhall, as Kizette has now become, gathered together her recollections and, with the help of Charles Phillips, published them in the form of a biography in 1987: Passion by Design, The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka, op.cit.

B.346

circa1954

Oil on cardboard

(Portrait du baron Kuffner agé)

Collections

1986 - Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Univer - U.S.A.

History

Baron KUFFNER, Family or close friend: Baron Raoul Kuffner de Dioszegh, descended from a wealthy family of Hungarian brewers and breeders, received his title of nobility by the hand of Emperor Francis-Joseph. This great landowner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had the foresight to part with his property in Europe before emigrating to the United States in 1939. He married Lempicka, in Switzerland, in 1933, "six years after having met her in Paris" (The Billings Gazette, 5 September 1946). The baron's father, Karl, had assembled - in a specially designed wing of his château in Dioszegh - a splendid collection of Old Master paintings, open to his fellow citizens. The collection landed in France between 1930 and 1938, and travelled on to New York in 1940, where it became the object of a prestigious auction at Parke-Bernett's on 18 November 1948. Baron Kuffner died on November 3, 1961, on his return trip from Europe to New York, on the SS Liberté. He is the author of a book pleading in favor of free enterprise: Planomania-Capitalism makes Sense (Richard R. Smith Publishers).

B.347

circa1954

Oil on canvas

(Portrait du Baron Kuffner dans un fauteuil)

Collections

1992 - Private collection - U.S.A.

History

Baron KUFFNER, Family or close friend: Baron Raoul Kuffner de Dioszegh, descended from a wealthy family of Hungarian brewers and breeders, received his title of nobility by the hand of Emperor Francis-Joseph. This great landowner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had the foresight to part with his property in Europe before emigrating to the United States in 1939. He married Lempicka, in Switzerland, in 1933, "six years after having met her in Paris" (The Billings Gazette, 5 September 1946). The baron's father, Karl, had assembled - in a specially designed wing of his château in Dioszegh - a splendid collection of Old Master paintings, open to his fellow citizens. The collection landed in France between 1930 and 1938, and travelled on to New York in 1940, where it became the object of a prestigious auction at Parke-Bernett's on 18 November 1948. Baron Kuffner died on November 3, 1961, on his return trip from Europe to New York, on the SS Liberté. He is the author of a book pleading in favor of free enterprise: Palnomania-Capitalism makes Sense (Richard R. Smith Publishers).

Auctions

10/11/1992 - NEW YORK. Christie's East “Beat-7363”, # 141 $ 13 000

B.348

circa1954

Oil on canvas

(Jeune fille couronnée)

Collections

1985 - Barry Friedman Ltd. - U.S.A.

B.349

circa1954

Oil on canvas

(Femme au turban blanc I)

In this replica, as in the following one, the outline of the face shows - more than repentance - uncertainty.

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

B.350

circa1954

Oil on canvas

(Femme au turban blanc II)

In this variant of the preceding work, a pearl necklace has been added.

Collections

1994 - Private collection - U.S.A.

Auctions

29/09/1994 - NEW YORK. Sotheby's Arcade, # 110B $ 16 100

B.351

circa1954

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (bottom right)

(Femme au turban blanc III)

Collections

1980 - Fundacion Victor Manuel Contreras - Mexico

B.352

circa1954

Oil on canvas

(Deux madones)

Collections

1989 - Private collection - Japan

Exhibitions

1997 - Hiroshima Museum of Arts. Tamara de Lempicka, Tokyo-Hiroshima, Japan

Auctions

05/10/1989 - NEW YORK. Christie's “Peter-6908”, # 110 $ 16 000
26/11/1989 - circa AILLES. Perrin, R., L. Hôt. des C-L, # 110 $ 23 438

B.353

1955

Oil on canvas

(Composition abstraite bleue)

Collections

1957 - Fonds National d'Art Contemporain

Exhibitions

1961 - Galerie Ror-Volmar, "T. de Lempicka, œuvres récentes et anciennes, 1930-1960", Paris, France

B.354

1955

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. 1955. (in a cartouche bottom right)

(Composition abstraite aux tourbillons)

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

Exhibitions

1997 - Hiroshima Museum of Arts. Tamara de Lempicka, Tokyo-Hiroshima, Japan

B.355

circa1955

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA 35 (bottom left)

(Composition abstraite)

Although it might be dated 1935, the style, harmony, and rhythm of this painting indisputably are in the same vein as in the two preceding works(B.353 et B.354), which are very legibly dated 1955. This inconsistency here was most probably induced by the artist's back dating of this work, a somewhat derisory conceit that is not infrequent among modern painters.

Collections

1994 - Private collection - France

Auctions

26/02/1993 - NEW YORK. Sotheby's Arcade “1423”, # 93 $ 8 000
11/07/1993 - ARLES. F. Holz, # 151 $ 0
14/07/1994 - LES BAUX DE PROVENCE. Holz, # 120 $ 12 678

B.356

circa1955

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA (in a cartouche bottom right)

(Composition abstraite aux feuilles volantes)

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

Exhibitions

1997 - Hiroshima Museum of Arts. Tamara de Lempicka, Tokyo-Hiroshima, Japan

B.357

circa1955

Oil on canvas

(Composition abstraite aux rectangles blancs)

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

Exhibitions

1997 - Hiroshima Museum of Arts. Tamara de Lempicka, Tokyo-Hiroshima, Japan

B.358

circa1955

Oil on canvas

T.LEMPICKA. (bottom right)

(Composition abstraite en bleu n°1)

Collections

1990 - Private collection - Switzerland

Auctions

18/02/1990 - PARIS. Charbonneaux., # 21 $ 12 000

B.359

circa1955

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (bottom right)

(Composition abstraite en bleu n°2)

Collections

1992 - Private collection - U.S.A.

Auctions

09/05/1992 - NEW YORK. Christie's East “Will-7311”, # 177 $ 2 800

B.360

circa1955

Oil on canvas

T.LEMPICKA (in a cartouche bottom right)

(Composition abstraite)

Collections

1994 - Private collection - France

Auctions

25/02/1992 - NEW YORK. Christie's “Cavallini-7408”, # 86 $ 15 000
12/05/1993 - GENEVE. Kohn , # ? $ 0
27/05/1992 - GENEVE. Kohn , # 295 $ 0
16/10/1993 - PARIS. Cornette de St C. Drouot Montaigne, # 46 $ 0

B.361

circa1955

Oil on canvas

(Composition abstraite)

Collections

1992 - Private collection - France

Auctions

15/04/1992 - PARIS. Poulain, Le Fur, # 85 $ 4 700

B.362

circa1956

Oil on canvas

T.DE LEMPICKA. (in a cartouche bottom right)

(Composition abstraite en gris et rose)

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

B.363

circa1956

Oil on canvas

T.DE LEMPICKA. (in a cartouche bottom right)

(Composition abstraite en noir et gris)

It would come as no surprise to find a figure or an outline buried under these interlaced lines.

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

B.364

circa1956

Oil on canvas on cardboard

(Composition abstraite bleue et blanche )

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

B.365

circa1956

Oil on cardboard

(Composition abstraite)

Collections

1986 - Private collection - France

B.366

circa1956

Oil on canvas

T.LEMPICKA. (top center)

(Composition abstraite)

Collections

1955 - Purchased directly by Mr. Gino Puglisi - Italy
1992 - Private collection -

B.367

circa1956

Oil on canvas

(Composition abstraite )

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

B.368

circa1956

Oil on canvas

(La liseuse III, abstrait)

Thanks to the book that can be recognized at the center of this work, the viewer has no trouble discovering - buried under the work's tortuous composition - a few lines borrowed from the outlines of "The Reader" (B.300).

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

Exhibitions

1997 - Hiroshima Museum of Arts. Tamara de Lempicka, Tokyo-Hiroshima, Japan

B.369

1957

Oil on canvas

T.LEMPICKA. (in a cartouche top right)

(Composition abstraite)

Collections

1972 - Purchased directly by Mr. & Mrs. Van den - Belgium

Exhibitions

1972 - Galerie du Luxembourg, "Tamara de Lempicka de 1925 à 1935", Paris, France
1981 - Seibu, "Tamara de Lempicka", Tokyo-Osaka, Japan
1997 - Hiroshima Museum of Arts. Tamara de Lempicka, Tokyo-Hiroshima, Japan

B.370

circa1957

Oil on wood panel

(signed on the back of the panel)

(Madonina II)

Another circa ion of the 1935 "Madonina I".

Collections

1980 - Fundacion Victor Manuel Contreras - Mexico

B.371

circa1957

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (in a cartouche top right)

(La Hollandaise II)

Collections

1980 - Fundacion Victor Manuel Contreras - Mexico

B.372

circa1957

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (in a cartouche bottom right)

(Le modèle II)

Collections

1986 - Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Univer - U.S.A.

B.480

circa1957

Oil on canvas

(Portrait de petite fille II)

B.482

circa1957

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (in a cartouche top left)

(Les arums II)

Collections

Collection of Patricia and James Cayne - U.S.A.

History

The CALLA LILIES, Biography, Psychology: What could be the significance of the artist's lifelong passion for arum flowers? In Lempicka's work, the objects selected to compose her still lifes - which often bring to mind riddles to be decoded - usually have a symbolic meaning. In the light of her oeuvre, we can easily guess at the symbolism of the arum flower: the white corolla of course brings the ideal of purity to mind, while the tumescent pistil at its center is the very image of concupiscence. Illustrating the artist's tormented mind, it represents, in a manner of speaking, the unstable marriage of sanctity and lust!

B.483

circa1957

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (top right)

(Les arums III)

History

The CALLA LILIES, Biography, Psychology: What could be the significance of the artist's lifelong passion for arum flowers? In Lempicka's work, the objects selected to compose her still lifes - which often bring to mind riddles to be decoded - usually have a symbolic meaning. In the light of her oeuvre, we can easily guess at the

B.484

circa1957

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (in a cartouche bottom right)

(Les arums IV)

Collections

1980 - Lempicka Estate - U.S.A.

History

The CALLA LILIES, Biography, Psychology: What could be the significance of the artist's lifelong passion for arum flowers? In Lempicka's work, the objects selected to compose her still lifes - which often bring to mind riddles to be decoded - usually have a symbolic meaning. In the light of her oeuvre, we can easily guess at the symbolism of the arum flower: the white corolla of course brings the ideal of purity to mind, while the tumescent pistil at its center is the very image of concupiscence. Illustrating the artist's tormented mind, it represents, in a manner of speaking, the unstable marriage of sanctity and lust!

B.490

circa1957

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (bottom right)

(Suzanne au bain II)

Collections

1980 - Fundacion Victor Manuel Contreras - Mexico

B.493

circa1957

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (in a cartouche top right)

(Le turban orange IV)

In their catalog of 8 November 1994, Christie's East, in New York, specified: "signed again, dedicated and dated on the recirca e 'Tamara de Lempicka. For Nancy, April 6, 1974.'" This is only the dedication date for, judging from the style and manner, the execution date of this replica should rather be in the second half of the sixties.

Collections

1994 - Private collection - U.S.A.

Auctions

08/11/1994 - NEW YORK. Christie's East "Encore-7613", # 77 $ 52 000

B.501

circa1957

Oil on canvas

(La Bretonne II)

B.504

circa1957

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (in a cartouche bottom right)

(La Sagesse II)

Collections

1977 - Private collection - U.S.A.
1993 - Private collection - U.S.A.

Auctions

03/11/1993 - NEW YORK. Christie's “Christine-7762”, # 302 $ 32 000

B.509

circa1957

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (in a cartouche top left)

(L'heure bleue II)

Collections

1975 - Private collection - Mexico

B.515

circa1957/1975

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA 1975 (bottom left)

(Raphaela en mauve *)

Here, the artist reverts to the theme of "la belle Rafaëla", this time in the form of a large geometric composition. Lempicka was seeking a sort of synthesis and summary of her art since the twenties, but this circa ion reflects the sure hand she could no longer boast during the seventies. Hence, it would be more logical to date this painting to the end fifties, despite the dating provided next to the signature.

Collections

1975 - Collection of Count and Countess de Warr - U.S.A.
1983 - Galleries Maurice Sternberg - U.S.A.
1994 - Private collection - U.S.A.

Auctions

11/05/1994 - NEW YORK. Christie's “Miyoko-7904”, # 346 $ 80 000
24/03/1983 - LONDON. Sotheby's “Cagnes”, # 267 $ 9 000

B.516

circa1957

Oil on canvas

LEMPICKA. (in a cartouche top left)

(La belle Rafaela II)

In this circa ion, the color orange replaces the red.

Collections

1977 - Private collection - U.S.A.
1993 - Private collection - U.S.A.

Auctions

03/11/1993 - NEW YORK. Christie's “Christine-7762”, # 359 $ 65 000