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Lot 1 : Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)

Auction Location: France - 2006
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Artist or Maker:

Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)

Title:

La Sagesse

Description:

La Sagesse
huile sur toile
54.7 x 38 cm. (21 5/8 x 15 in.)
Peint vers 1974

Provenance:

Vente, M e Françoise Holz, Arles, 6 mai 1990, lot 152.
Acquis au cours de cette vente par le propriétaire actuel.

Published:

A. Blondel, Tamara de Lempicka, catalogue raisonné, 1921-1979, Lausanne, 1999, p. 421, no. B.506 (illustré).

Notes:

Lempicka traita pour la première fois le sujet de La Sagesse, dans un panneau datant de 1940-41 (Blondel B.221). Alors que la position du modèle et le sujet traité évoquent l'art du peintre flamand Quentin Metsys (1466-1530), l'éxécution de ce tableau reste caractéristique de l'oeuvre Lempicka. En combinant les éléments graphiques du cubisme, du purisme et du néo-classicisme, Lempicka synthétise audacieusement son style à la fois classique et réaliste.

Lempicka first treated the subject La Sagesse in a work executed on panel in 1940-41 (Blondel B.221). While the placement of the figure within the picture field as well as the subject recall the work of the Flemish painter, Quentin Metsys (1466-1530), the execution of the work remains entirely Lempicka. Combining elements drawn from French Cubism, Purism and Neo-Classicism, Lempicka synthesized her own boldly cosmpolitan classic-realist style.

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