Tamara De Lempicka (Bloomsbury Lives of Women)

This is a very detailed book about Tamara’s life and times but I would have liked to have seen more photos of her artwork included.

I loved this book, it does'nt leave any part of her life uncovered whether it be her art, her sex life or her very troubled relationship with her daughter and granddaughters. It goes into the fact that because she was upper class and monied she didn't always get the respect from the art world that she deserved. She wasn't always a likeable woman but by the end of the book I had huge respect for her and her wonderful work ethic. I read it because I love her paintings and the world of the twenties and thirties but hadn't been aware of her later paintings which were brilliant also. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in Tamara and women painters in general.

I ordered the book from another company. The book was used but in very good condition as described by the seller. I am very pleased with it.

Bought as a gift. Recipient will be very pleased.

Amazing read

great

I bought this as a present for a friend and so I never read it but she tells me that it was a great read and more or less read it through at one sitting.

An enormous amount of research clearly went into the writing of this biography. There can be no doubting this biographer's commitment. Ultimately though, I was left staring at an enormous blind spot, which made this such an unsatisfactory biography for me. For example, de Lempicka's affair with Suzy Solidor is despatched in one short sentence anouncing that bare fact, while the painter's involvement with an Italian male aristocrat, surely not more significant than the relationship with Solidor, is returned to in quite significant detail. Possibly, the biographer had trouble finding sources. But there can be no excuse for sailing past the evidence of de Lempicka's paintings themselves, such a large number of which are raw and intensely erotic portrayals of female nudes, both singularly and in couples or groups. This evidence is there for all to see; ignoring it is wilful.