Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara in the Green Bugatti
Oil on Canvas
26x 35 cm
1925
Tamara was born in Russia but left during the Russian revolution and made it to Paris where she flourished. She was born into a wealthy family but upon her parents divorce decided to forge her own way and met her husband Tadeusz Lempicka. She Painted Tamara in the Green Bugatti for the cover of a German fashion magazine Die Dame. The subject in the painting is herself as a strong woman, a cold beauty. Her helmet and gloves signify her independence.
“I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don’t apply to those who live on the fringe.”
http://www.tamara-de-lempicka.org/Self-Portrait-in-the-Green-Bugatti.html
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