Tamara de Lempicka: The making of an Art Deco icon

This short documentary opens a window into the life and art of the legendary Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka. Featuring interviews with curator Furio Rinaldi and the artist’s great-granddaughter, Marisa de Lempicka, as well as archival footage of the artist herself, this film traces Lempicka’s life and career, from her childhood in Russia to her burgeoning art career in Paris to how she became an Art Deco icon. Learn more about the exhibition and plan your visit here: https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/tamara-de-lempicka Shop the exhibition catalogue and collection here: https://shop.famsf.org/collections/tamara-de-lempicka Subscribe to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: https://www.youtube.com/@FAMSF?sub_confirmation=1 About the exhibition: With works that exuded cool elegance and transgressive sensuality, Tamara de Lempicka (1894–1980) helped define Art Deco. Her paintings captured the glamour and vitality of postwar Paris and the cosmopolitan sheen of Hollywood celebrity. This exhibition — the first major museum retrospective of Lempicka in the United States — explores the artist’s distinctive style and unconventional life through four major chapters. The more than 100 artworks on display range from her post-Cubist work in 1920s Paris to her most famous nudes and portraits to the melancholic still lifes and interiors of her final days in the United States and Mexico. Including an in-depth look at the artist’s drawings and studies, this exhibition reveals t