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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA (1898-1980)

Lot 25
05.03.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 25 | TAMARA DE LEMPICKA (1898-1980)
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£ 5 000 000 – 8 000 000
TAMARA DE LEMPICKA (1898-1980)
Portrait du Docteur Boucard
signed ‘T. DE LEMPICKA’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
53 7/8 x 30 ¾ in. (137 x 78 cm.)
Painted in 1928




Provenance

Dr Pierre Boucard, Paris, by whom commissioned directly from the artist in 1929, and thence by descent.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 14 November 1985, lot 278.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

T. de Lempicka, Album-photos annoté, Houston, 1923, no. 69.
Die Wochenschau, Girardet, Essen, 5 February 1929 (illustrated).
G. Remon, ‘Tamara de Lempicka’ in Mobilier et décoration, vol. IX, no. 1, January 1929, p. 29 (illustrated).
A. Alexandre, ‘Tamara de Lempicka’ in La renaissance de l'art français, Paris, July 1929, p. 336 (illustrated p. 337).
A. Warnod, ‘L'intéressante exposition de Tamara de Lempicka’ in Comoedia, Paris, 17 May 1931, p. 3.
I. Zaslawska, ‘Tamara de Lempicka’ in Kobieta Wspolczesna (La femme moderne), Warsaw, 20 July 1932, p. 753 (illustrated).
M.A. Dayot, ‘Tamara de Lempicka’ in L'art et les artistes, no. 156, Paris, April 1935, p. 232 (illustrated).
M. Vaux, Fonds Lempicka, Paris, 1972, no. 69.
B. Bernard, ‘Tamara’s World’ in The Sunday Times Magazine, London, 22 August 1976, p. 19 (illustrated).
G. Marmori, Tamara de Lempicka, Milan, 1977, pp. 15 & 84 (illustrated p. 85).
G. Marmori, The Major Works of Tamara de Lempicka 1925 to 1935, Florence, 1978, pp. 7 & 74 (illustrated p. 20).
G. Bazin & H. Itsuki, Tamara de Lempicka, Tokyo, 1980, no. 33 (illustrated; dated ‘1929’).
U. Habrecht & A. Grosskopf, ‘Sirene im Reich der Sinne’ in Stern Magazine, 1982, p. 140 (illustrated).
M. Frizot, Le Passé Composé - Les 6 x 13 de Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Paris, 1984 (work in progress illustrated in situ).
K. de Lempicka-Foxhall & C. Phillips, Passion by Design, The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka, Oxford, 1987, pp. 96-97 & 101 (illustrated p. 97).
E. Lucie-Smith, Art Deco Painting, Oxford, 1990, no. 40, p. 61 (illustrated p. 63).
E. Thormann, Tamara de Lempicka, Kunstkritik und Künstlerinnen in Paris, Berlin, 1993, no. 64, pp. 153, 201 & 223 (illustrated pl. 7, p. 150).
A. Blondel, Tamara de Lempicka: Catalogue raisonné, 1921-1979, Lausanne, 1999, no. B.108, pp. 33 & 188 (illustrated p. 189; a detail illustrated p. 33; the work in progress in situ illustrated p. 32).
G. Néret, Tamara de Lempicka 1898-1980, Cologne, 1991, p. 45 (illustrated p. 47).
G. Mori, ed., Tamara de Lempicka, exh. cat., Milan, 2006, no. 4, p. 75 (a detail illustrated).
S. Tise-Isoré, ed., Lempicka, exh. cat., Paris, 2006, pl. 32 (illustrated; work in progress illustrated again in situ pl. 33).
G. Mori, ed., Tamara de Lempicka, Reina del Art Déco, exh. cat., Madrid, 2018, p. 40 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Société des artistes indépendants, 40e Exposition, January - February 1929, no. 2661, p. 220.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 28th International Exhibition of Paintings, October – December 1929, no. 211 (illustrated).
Paris, Galerie Colette Weil, Tamara de Lempicka, 1931.
Paris, Galerie Ror-Volmar, Tamara de Lempicka, oeuvres récentes et anciennes, 1930-1960, May - June 1961 (dated ‘1932’).
Paris, Galerie du Luxembourg, Tamara de Lempicka de 1925 à 1935, June - July 1972, no. 35, p. 13 (illustrated p. 47).
Rome, Accademia di Francia, Tamara de Lempicka, Elegant transgressions, February - May 1994, no. 27, p. 102 (illustrated p. 64); this exhibition later travelled to Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, June - October 1994.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Tamara de Lempicka: Art Deco Icon, May - August 2004, no. 27, pp. 92 & 139 (illustrated p. 92 and illustrated again as a frontispiece); this exhibition later travelled to Vienna, Kunstforum Wien, September 2004 - January 2005.
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Eastern Europe, Europe, Poland
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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