Giclee, heavy paper, 48 x 58 cm in light passe - partout, framed 95 x 120 cm. Two dry stamps , one (p.d.) with the name of the edition and the number of the print in pencil (1/100) according to the certificate, the other (l.d.) -of thepublisher together with the imprint of Lempicka's signature.Number 1/100.
Among the many lovers Tamara Lempicka had throughout her long and crazy life, the handsome Marquis Guido di Giralamo Sommi Picenardi was one of her few male companions whom she immortalized in a portrait.
Guido was a descendant of Italian nobility and an avant-garde musician. He was portrayed as a symbol of male fashion, and by formulating him in the Cubist style of the "mad Twenties," the artist introduced attributes of wealth that were characteristic of the entertainers and aristocrats immortalized in her works.
Tamara Lempicka (1898 Warsaw- 1980 Cuernavaca) Polish artist of world renown, an icon of art deco and the interwar period. She spent her early youth in Warsaw (where she was born), Switzerland (where she attended boarding school) and St. Petersburg (where she met her first husband Tadeusz Lempicki). During this period she became acquainted with Italy and with it Renaissance masters who were an inexhaustible source of inspiration. In 1918, she moved to Paris. In the French capital she began to study painting and discovered Cubism which became the flagship of her work. With the outbreak of World War II, she moved to the United States to then spend the rest of her life in Mexico. There she was also "buried", according to the artist's last will her ashes were scattered at the Popocatepetl volcano.
"I painted kings and prostitutes. I paint those who are inspiring to me and make me feel vibrations."
