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Alain Blondel has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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Portrait d'une jeune fille rousse (recto); Étude abstraite (verso)
Details
Tamara De Lempicka (1898-1980)
Portrait d'une jeune fille rousse (recto); Étude abstraite (verso)
signed 'T.DE.LEMPICKA' (lower right); signed indistinctly 'Tamara de Lempicka' (on the reverse)
oil on board
10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. (27 x 22 cm.)
Painted circa 1939
Portrait d'une jeune fille rousse (recto); Étude abstraite (verso)
signed 'T.DE.LEMPICKA' (lower right); signed indistinctly 'Tamara de Lempicka' (on the reverse)
oil on board
10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. (27 x 22 cm.)
Painted circa 1939
Provenance
Ira Perrot, France, and thence by descent.
Alain Blondel, Paris, by whom acquired from the above.
Private collection, New York, by whom acquired from the above.
Alain Blondel, Paris, by whom acquired from the above.
Private collection, New York, by whom acquired from the above.
Exhibited
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Tamara de Lempicka, May - August 2009, no. 36, p. 134 (illustrated p. 135).
Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Fine Arts, Tamara de Lempicka et son époque, March - May 2010, no. 44, p. 109 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Tamara de Lempicka, The Queen of Modern, March - July 2011, no. 56, pp. 266 & 387 (illustrated p. 267).
Paris, Pinacothèque, Tamara de Lempicka, La Reine de l'Art Déco, April - September 2013, no. 92, p. 197 (illustrated; dated '1939-1944').
Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Fine Arts, Tamara de Lempicka et son époque, March - May 2010, no. 44, p. 109 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Tamara de Lempicka, The Queen of Modern, March - July 2011, no. 56, pp. 266 & 387 (illustrated p. 267).
Paris, Pinacothèque, Tamara de Lempicka, La Reine de l'Art Déco, April - September 2013, no. 92, p. 197 (illustrated; dated '1939-1944').
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