1999 1st Ed: “Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco & Decadence” by Laura Claridge

As shown. See all photos. Hardcover with dust jacket.

“Laura Claridge has published several books on British Romanticism, Modernism, gender, and psychoanalytic theory. A popular international lecturer, she was a professor of English literature at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, from 1986 to 1997. She lives in New York City and Washington, D.C.”

“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…”