Self-Portrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti)

Who made Tamara in a Green Bugatti and when

Tamara De Lempicka, 1929

What may be the earliest image of a flashy car driving through a city?

John Sloan’s ‘Grey and Brass’ (1907)

Lempicka was born into a….

Wealthy Polish family

Where was Lempicka born?

Moscow, around 1894

Where/when does Lempicka claim she was born?

Warsaw and St. Petersburg, 1898-1905

Lempecka’s parents were alternatively known as….

Hurwitz and Gurska

Who did Lempecka marry in 1916?

Count Tadeusz de Lempicki, a Polish artistocrat and lawyer

What was the name of Tempecka’s daughter?

Kizette

Where did Lempecka and Kizette flee to?

Paris

Who did Lempicka study under in Paris?

Cubist painter Andre Lhote

When/where was Lempicka’s FIRST major exhibition?

Bottega di Poesia in Milan, Italy, 1925

When did Tamara and Tadeusz divorce?

1928

Who was Lempicki’s second husband?

Baron Raul Kuffner

When did Lempicki marry her second husband?

1933

When did Lempicki and Kuffner immigrate to the US?

1939

When/where to did Lempicki retire to?

Cuernavaca, Mexico, in 1978

When did Lempicki die?

1980

What did Lempicki combine?

Cubism’s faceted shapes and analysis of space with the sensuousness and luxury of Art Deco

When was Art Deco prominent?

1924-30

The car window’s framing focuses on….

The dramatically elongated hand on the steering wheel

By 1927, there was one car every ____ people

44

Where was Bugatti based?

Alasce, Germany

What model is the Bugatti in the portrait?

Roadster 43

What artist portrayed cars in relation to the humans who operated?

Fernand Leger’s ‘The Machine’ (1920)

What Futurist works use dramatic abstraction to represent cars?

‘Speeding Automobile’ (1912) By Giacomo Balla and Dynamism of an Automobile (1912-13) Luigi Russolo

When did Die Dame commission Lempicki?

1927

Lempicki worked with who on Die Dame?

Hannah Hoch

When did Die Dame run?

1912-43

Die Dame had about _______ copies per issue

60,000

What artworks by Lempecka appeared in Die Dame?

The Orange Scarf (1927), High Summer (1928), St. Mortiz (1929), and Self-Portrait

What car did Lempecka actually drive?

A small yellow Renault

What important event occurred just days before the Die Dame issue with Self-Portrait was published?

Clarenore Stinnes arrived in Berlin, completing her 27-month automobile tour

Who was Clarenore Stinnes husband?

Carl-Axel Soderstrom