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Passion by design : the art and times of Tamara de Lempicka

Title
Passion by design : the art and times of Tamara de Lempicka / by Baroness Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall as told to Charles Phillips.
Author
De Lempicka-Foxhall, Kizette, Baroness.
Publication
New York : Abbeville Press, [1987], ©1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Phillips, Charles, 1948-
  • Khatami, Renée
Description
191 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
Summary
A biography of the Polish born Art Deco portraitist and her work.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Note
  • Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index.
Contents
Out of the past (Paris, 1969-1972) -- Une petite grosse (Warsaw, 1898-1916) -- To the Finland station (Petrograd, 1917-1918) -- The hunger (Paris, 1918-1923) -- A perverse ingres (Paris, 1923-1925) -- La Donna D'oro (Italy, 1926-1927) -- The life of gesture (Paris, 1931-1939) -- Deja vu (Paris 1931-1939) -- The Baroness (Hollywood and New York, 1940-1962) -- Heartbreak tango (Houston, 1963-1978) -- Under the volcano (Cuernavaca, 1978-1980).
ISBN
  • 0896597601
  • 9780896597600
  • 0789205033
  • 9780789205032
LCCN
87001858
OCLC
  • ocm15162509
  • 15162509
  • SCSB-2588685
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries