Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Clarkson Potter; 1st ed edition (September 21, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN: 0517705575
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches
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With her couture clothes and movie-star good looks (she was frequently mistaken for Greta Garbo), Tamara de Lempicka seemed too glamorous to be a serious painter. Even in the years of her greatest success, 1925 to 1935, the luscious colors and highly wrought finishes of her portraits--a suspect...