Lempicka, who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1898, grew up with a love for art, from Italian Renaissance paintings to the post-cubism work of French painters Maurice Denis and André Lhote ...

Tamara de Lempicka’s art deco paintings — beloved by Madonna, celebrated in a musical and a major show in San Francisco — are immaculate and artificial.

Tamara de Lempicka never stopped challenging expectations. A refugee of the Russian Revolution, she became an icon of the Jazz Age and a celebrated Art Deco painter. Today, on what would have been ...