Food for the Soul: The Art of Reinvention – Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980). Portrait of Mrs. Rufus Bush, 1929. Oil on canvas, 48 1/16 x 26 in. (122 x 66 cm). Private collection, courtesy of Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum © 2024 Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, NY Photo: RoseBudz Productions, Courtesy of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout

When in 1916 Tamara married Tadeusz Lempicki (pronounced “Wem-pitski”), a Polish nobleman and a lawyer appointed at the Russian Imperial Court in St. Petersburg, it seemed that her future was on a settled course. She would be the beautiful wife of a handsome lawyer and raise her newborn daughter Marie Christine, nicknamed Kizette, in the safety and luxury of the high-society household of her aunt, who was married to a St. Petersburg banker.

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