Giclee, heavy paper, dimensions; 48 x 58 cm passe-partout, 94.5 x 120 cm framed (frame slightly damaged), limited edition,
Two dry stamps: publisher's circular Chelsea Green Editions j (p.d.) , hand-numbered in pencil 1/100 ( the piece number according to the certificate) , circular with the imprint of Łempicka's signature and logo. Work certified by Museum Masters International NYC the Lempicka Estate New York.
Certificate signed in her own hand by Victoria de Lempicka, granddaughter of Tamara Lempicka. The work with the title "Young Lady with Gloves (Girl with Gloves)" Number 62/100.
"I have painted kings and prostitutes. I paint those who are inspiring to me and make me feel vibrations."
Tamara Lempicka (1898 Warsaw- 1980 Cuernavaca)World-renowned Polish artist, icon of art deco and the interwar period. She spent her early youth in Warsaw (where she was born), Switzerland (where she attended boarding school) and St. Petersburg (where she met her first husband Tadeusz Lempicki). During this period she became acquainted with Italy and with it the Renaissance masters who were an inexhaustible source of inspiration.In 1918 she moved to Paris. In the French capital she began to study painting and discovered Cubism which became the flagship of her work. With the outbreak of World War II, she moved to the United States to then spend the rest of her life in Mexico. There she was also "buried", according to the artist's last will, her ashes were scattered at the Popocatepetl volcano.
Of the many lovers Tamara Lempicka had throughout her long and frenzied life, the handsome Marquis Guido di Giralamo Sommi Picenardi was one of her few male companions whom she immortalized in a portrait.
Guido was a descendant of Italian nobility and an avant-garde musician. He was portrayed as a symbol of male fashion, and by formulating him in the cubist style of the "crazy 1920s," the artist introduced attributes of wealth that were characteristic of the entertainers and aristocrats immortalized in her works.
