Etude pour Le Couple

Details

Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)
Etude pour Le Couple
oil on canvas
12 x 9 1/8 in. (30.4 x 23.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1943

Provenance

Estate of the artist.
Christie Tamara Foxhall, Houston (by descent from the above); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10 October 1990, lot 154.
Private collection (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 8 November 2012, lot 418.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.

Literature

A. Blondel, Tamara de Lempicka: Catalogue raisonné, 1921-1979, Lausanne, 1999, p. 326, no. B.245 (illustrated).

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Sarah El-Tamer

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Descrizione dettagliata lotto

According to Alain Blondel, "this figure, dressed in period style, looks like a film character. In fact, it is the Kuffner's (Russian) butler, portrayed at their home in Beverly Hills" (op. cit., p. 326).

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