Tamara de Lempicka

Nu aux buildings

signed T.DE LEMPICKA. (upper left)

oil on canvas

36¼ by 28¾ in.

92 by 73 cm.

Executed in 1930.

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Tamara de Lempicka
Nu aux buildings

signed T.DE LEMPICKA. (upper left)

oil on canvas

36¼ by 28¾ in.

92 by 73 cm.

Executed in 1930.

Provenance

M. Théonville, Lugano (acquired directly from the artist in 1931)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired by 1979)

Christie's New York, 26 May 1983, lot 425 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, United States (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibition

Paris, Salon des Indépendants, 1931, no. 2422 (titled Jeune fille)

Tokyo, Seibu Department Store and Osaka, Seibu Galleries, Tamara de Lempicka, 1981 , n.n.

Zurich, Walter Haas Gallery/Mayfish Fine Art, Art Déco; le Style Moderne, 1981, no. 7, p. 20, illustrated in color

Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Tamara de Lempicka: La regina del moderno, 2011, no. 40, pp. 226-27, illustrated in color and p. 387

London, The Royal Academy and Vienna, Kunstforum Wein, Tamara de Lempicka, Art Deco Icon, 2004-05, no. 35, pp. 26, 44, 102, illustrated in color and pp. 103, 139

Milan, Palazzo Reale, Tamara de Lempicka, 2006-07, no. 33, p. 137, illustrated in color and p. 203

Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Tamara de Lempicka, 2009, no. 24, p. 57, detail illustrated in color and pp. 110-11, illustrated in color

Tokyo, Musée des Beaux-Arts Bunkamura, Tamara de Lempicka et son époque, 2010, no. 25, pp. 78-79, illustrated in color and p. 193

Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Tamara de Lempicka: La regina del moderno, 2011, no. 40, pp. 226-27, illustrated in color and p. 387

Pinacothèque de Paris, Tamara de Lempicka, La reina de l’art Deco, 2013, no. 59, n.p., illustrated in color and p. 224

Literature

Tamara de Lempicka, Album-photos annoté, Houston, 1923, no. 101, illustrated

Edouard Woroniecki, "L'art polonais à Paris: Les artists polonais au Salon des Indépendants," La Pologne, issue XII, 1 April, 1931, p. 303

Marc Vaux, Fonds Lempicka, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1972 , no. 101, illustrated

Germaine Bazin and Hiroyuki Itsuki, Tamara de Lempicka, Tokyo, 1980, no. 49, n.p., illustrated in color and illustrated in index

Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall and Charles Phillips, Passion by Design: The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka, New York, 1987, n.n., p. 86, illustrated in color (dated circa 1930)

M. Caprara, "Gli amori di Tamara," Playmen, January 1988, p. 102, illustrated

Ellen Thormann, Tamara de Lempicka, Kunstkritik und Künstlerinnen in Paris, Berlin, 1993, no. 72

Gioia Mori, Tamara de Lempicka: Paris 1920-1938, Florence, 1994, n. 80, p. 179, illustrated in color and p. 263, illustrated

Alain Blondel, Lempicka, Catalogue Raisonné 1921-1979, Lausanne, 1999, no. B.129, p. 215, illustrated in color and p. 521

Patrick Bade, Tamara de Lempicka, New York, 2006, p. 88-89, illustrated in color and p. 207

Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall and Charles Phillips, Passion by Design: The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka (revised edition), New York, 2020, p. 99, illustrated in color