![]() You’ve got counts and duchesses and pioneers of industry, but also prostitutes and dancers and nightclub owners and transvestites-some of whom even are the counts and duchesses, or are sleeping with them. The art of them really rests on the contrast between the form-pure colors and clean lines that are clearly indebted to Renaissance masters-and the content, which is very much of its era: decadent figures from society and the demimonde. Her paintings, especially the ravishing portraits from when she lived in Paris in the Twenties and Thirties, just blew me away: they’re luminous, commanding, almost chrome-like in the polish of their surfaces. ![]() My first adult encounter with Tamara de Lempicka’s work occurred in London, at the Royal Academy’s exhibition of her work in 2004. ![]() When and where did you first encounter Tamara de Lempicka’s work? What struck you about it?Ī. A Conversation with Ellis Avery about The Last Nude ![]()
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