THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY — UPDATED & UNABRIDGED
COMING 2026
With an introduction by Laura Claridge and a preface by the Lempicka family
Tamara de Lempicka
A Life of Deco and Decadence
An icon of the Jazz Age, Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka lived a life well worth recording. Until now, however, no one has written the story of this woman of extraordinary talent and notoriety. She was a great beauty, an aristocratic refugee of the Russian Revolution, and a frankly erotic painter who insisted upon Renaissance aesthetics, figuration, and painterly craft in modern art.
The sky-high prices attached to her canvases in recent years have still not dispelled the suspicions that a woman of Lempicka’s glamour and fame could be a truly serious artist. Yet the reviews of the early twentieth century tell a different story: her work was routinely singled out as competing with major figures of the School of Paris, including Léger, Laurençin, Kisling, and Picasso.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“Lucid and interesting account of Lempicka’s life.”
NEW YORK TIMES
“The definitive round-up of de Lempicka’s ramshackle but riveting life.”
SUNDAY TIMES (LONDON)
“Laura Claridge has discovered a lot more than anyone else about this indisputably remarkable woman.”
IRISH TIMES
BOOKS
TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
A LIFE OF DECO AND DECADENCE
THE LADY WITH THE BORZOI
BLANCHE KNOPF: LITERARY TASTEMAKER EXTRAORDINAIRE
NORMAN ROCKWELL
A LIFE
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