Giclee, Arches velin paper, 74 x 83 cm, framed in a frame and double passe - partout with two gold slips.
Artist: Elite Lithoraphers, Edmonton, Canada.License: Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC Canada
Tamara Lempicka, dubbed the "Baroness with a Brush," reached the pinnacle of her unique style, combining Art Deco decorativeness with post-Cubist form, in her 1930 painting La Dormeuse (The Sleeper). It is one of her most sensual and iconic works. Here, Lempicka employs her characteristic tight framing. The figure of a woman almost "pushes apart" the frame of the painting, which gives the composition a monumental, almost sculptural character.
The model for Tamara Lempicka's work " La Dormeuse" was most likely Ira Perrot (by her own name Ira de Perrot) a close friend and great muse of Tamara Lempicka and for some time also her lover. It is Ira Perrot's portraits that are among the artist's most sensual and intimate works of the 1920s-30s. Lempicka often painted her in a statuesque manner, almost "frozen" in motion, which is perfectly evident in this painting. This also explains the extraordinary emotional charge and sensuality that beats from this - paradoxically - technically "cool" composition.
