Etching and aquatint. LSigned and numbered "15/100" in the lower left. From an edition of 100 copies. On off-white wove paper, laminated on cardboard. 57 x 36 cm. Sheet: 75,5 x 54 cm.
Based on the paintig "La Musicienne" from 1929. [MH/JS].
• Large-format composition in the timeless cool Art Deco style so characteristic of the artist.
• In 2018, a painting with the same motif, “La Musicienne”, sold in New York for 8 million euros, at the time the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by the artist.
• Lempicka's sophisticated Art Deco style masterfully combines influences from Cubism and the New Objectivity.
LITERATURE: Alain Blondel, Tamara de Lempicka. Catalog raisonné 1921-1979, Lausanne 1999, p. 472, catalogue raisonné no. A.152 (illustrated, different copy).