Lot Essay
Alain Blondel will include this painting in his forthcoming Lempicka catalogue raisonné.
Le coquillage
Details
Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)
Le coquillage
signed bottom right 'LEMPICKA.'
oil on canvas
16 x 20 1/8in. (40.2 x 51cm.)
Painted in 1939
Le coquillage
signed bottom right 'LEMPICKA.'
oil on canvas
16 x 20 1/8in. (40.2 x 51cm.)
Painted in 1939
Provenance
Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall, Houston (daughter of the artist)
Literature
intro. G. Bazin, Tamara de Lempicka 1920-1960, Tokyo, 1980, no. 80 (illustrated)
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Ror-Volmar, Rétrospective Tamara de Lempicka, 1961. The exhibition traveled to New York, Iolas Gallery, 1961.