Russian nesting 3 DOLLS Tamara de Lempicka Portrait Mrs. Bush Woman Two girls

  

Russian, hand carved and painted wooden set of 5 nesting dolls created by the Russian Artist. The height of the biggest doll is 14.4 cm (5 11/16 inches). All my dolls fit inside one another!! Works on this doll include. Woman with a Green Glove, 1928.

Tamara Lempicka (born Maria Górska; 16 May 1898 18 March 1980), also known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter active in the 1920s and 1930s, who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best-known for her polished Art-Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly-stylized paintings of nudes. Born in Warsaw, Lempicka moved to Saint Petersburg where she married a prominent Polish lawyer, then emigrated to Paris with her husband following the Russian Revolution. She studied painting with Maurice Denis and André Lhote. Her style was a blend of late, refined cubism and the neoclassical style, particularly inspired by the work of Jean-Dominique Ingres. She was an active participant in the artistic and social life of Paris between the Wars. In 1928 she became the mistress of wealthy art collector from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Baron Raoul Kuffner. After the death of his wife in 1933, the Baron married Lempicka in 1934, and thereafter she became known in the press as The Baroness with a Brush. Following the outbreak of World War II in 1939, she and her husband moved to the United States and she painted celebrity portraits, as well as still-lifes and, in the 1960s, some abstract paintings. Her work was out of fashion after World War II, but made a comeback in the late 1960s, with the rediscovery of Art Deco. She moved to Mexico in 1974, where she died in 1980. At her request, her ashes were scattered over the Popocatapetl volcano. The best description of Lempicka's work was her own: "I was the first woman to make clear paintings", she later told her daughter, and that was the origin of my success. Among a hundred canvases, mine were always recognizable. The galleries tended to show my pictures in the best rooms, because they attracted people. My work was clear and finished. I looked around me and could only see the total destruction of painting. The banality in which art had sunk gave me a feeling of disgust. I was searching for a craft that no longer existed; I worked quickly with a delicate brush. I was in search of technique, craft, simplicity and good taste. Create a new style, with luminous and brilliant colors, rediscover the elegance of my models.

She was one of the best-known painters of the Art Deco style, a group which included Jean Dupas, Diego Rivera, Josep Maria Sert, Reginald Marsh, and Rockwell Kent, but unlike these artists, who often painted large murals with crowds of subjects, she focused almost exclusively on portraits. Her first teacher at the Academie Ranson in Paris was Maurice Denis, who taught her according to his celebrated maxim: Remember that a painting, before it is a war horse, a nude woman or some anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order. He was primarily a decorative artist, who taught her the traditional craftsmanship of painting. Her other influential teacher was André Lhote, who taught her to follow a softer, more refined form of cubism that did not shock the viewer or look out of place in a luxurious living room. Her cubism was far from that of Pablo Picasso or Georges Braque; For her, Pablo Picasso "embodied the novelty of destruction".

Lempicka's combined this soft cubism with a neoclassical style, inspired largely by Ingres, particularly his famous Turkish Bath, with its exaggerated nudes crowding the canvas. Her painting La Belle Rafaëlla was especially influenced by Ingres. Lempicka's technique, following Ingres, was clean, precise, and elegant, but at the same time charged with sensuality and a suggestion of vice. The cubist elements of her paintings were usually in the background, behind the Ingresque figures. The smooth skin textures and equally smooth, luminous fabrics of the clothes were the dominant elements of her paintings.

Her work has not just a Amaizing quality finish but also has a beautiful loving warmth to it. A must have for Russian lovers and it would make an amazing and unique gift for any Occasion or a Very Special Birthday, too good to miss!! Or better yet Be sure to add me to your. And see more unique and interesting things pop up.

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The item "Russian nesting 3 DOLLS Tamara de Lempicka Portrait Mrs. Bush Woman Two girls" is in sale since Thursday, September 28, 2017.

This item is in the category "Dolls & Bears\Dolls, Clothing & Accessories\Russian Dolls". The seller is "tom3burma" and is located in Norwich. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Brand: Handmade
• Doll Size: 5 in.

• Features: Artist Made
• Number of Pieces: 3
• Country/Region of Manufacture: Russian Federation