# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BX8Ii4Th5yw
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16046583-drawingcenter-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/73ef217ec6.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-08-18T15:07:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction.

Tamara de Lempicka (born Maria Górska, 1898-1980), who rose to prominence during the 1930s, was a Polish painter best known for her lavish art deco portraits of upperclassmen. A noteworthy player in high society herself, Lempicka controversially married Baron of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Raoul Kuffner, after painting a portrait of his former mistress in an unflattering manner; earning her the title: “The Baroness with a Brush.” Although her social reputation was connected to her career as a portraitist, Lempicka’s elegant neo-classical portraits of exiled nobility, scientists, fellow artists and scholars, constitute a unique take on art deco that led to her high demand as a portraitist. Unlike the hard geometric patterns that characterized the art-deco style, Lempicka used smooth Ingres-esque brushwork to style figures. "I was the first woman to make clear paintings", she said to her daughter, "and that was the origin of my success. Among a hundred canvases, mine were always recognizable.” #TamaradeLempicka

Photograph by Dora Kallmus (Madame d'Ora Studio), 1929.

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