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Property from a Private Collection, Europe

Tamara de Lempicka

Portrait d'une jeune femme triste

Live auction begins on:

June 24, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Tamara de Lempicka

1898 - 1980


Portrait d’une jeune femme triste

signed LEMPICKA. (upper left)

oil on canvas

80 by 66 cm. 31½ by 26 in.

Executed circa 1922.

Jerzy Lempicki (brother of Tadeusz de Lempicki, the artist’s husband)

Private Collection, Austria (acquired by descent from the above)

Private Collection, Austria (acquired from the above in 1978)

Acquired from the above by the present owner on 12 December 1989

(probably) Milan, Bottega di Poesia, Tamara de Lempicka, 1925, no. 2 (titled Ritratto d’autunno)

Constantin Stifter, 9 clichés, Archives de l’auteur, 1923

Alain Blondel, Tamara de Lempicka: Catalogue Raisonné, 1921-1979, Lausanne, 1999, no. B. 15, p. 90, illustrated; doc. 4, p. 24, illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio

Exh. Cat., Milan, Palazzo Reale, Tamara de Lempicka, 2006-07, p. 178, fig. 3, illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio

Exh. Cat., Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Tamara de Lempicka, La Regina del Moderno, 2011, p. 116, illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio

Exh. Cat., Turin, Palazzo Chiablese, Tamara de Lempicka, 2015, p. 32, illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio

Exh. Cat., Verona, AMO – Palazzo Forti, Tamara de Lempicka, 2016, p. 32, illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio

Exh. Cat., San Francisco, de Young Museum and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Tamara de Lempicka, 2024-25, p. 250, note 1