MOVIE: The True Story Of Tamara de Lempicka and the Art of Survival

For those interested we will meet for brunch at 11:15 a.m. at a nearby cafe before the movie.

Link to purchase tickets:

https://thefridacinema.org/purchase/1051500/

The True Story Of Tamara de Lempicka and the Art of Survival is coming off of its festival run straight to The Frida Cinema!

A visually stunning and sweeping feature documentary that traces the life and survival of the renowned painter through her powerful paintings – from her rise to international stardom in 1920s Paris, to her move to the United States in 1940, fleeing the rise of fascism, and her revival in the current art market.

Tamara de Lempicka was the preeminent Art Deco painter, known for her high-gloss sensual nudes and portraits of high society during the Jazz Age. She was marginalized and gained notoriety for her romantic liaisons with her models and her indulgent, decadent lifestyle, but she was so much more.

Bisexuality
Lempicka was bisexual. Her affairs with both men and women were conducted in ways that were considered scandalous at the time. She often used formal and narrative elements in her portraits, and her nude studies included themes of desire and seduction. In the 1920s, she became closely associated with lesbian and bisexual women in writing and artistic circles, among them Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville-West, and Colette.

Her close friend and lover the French poet Ira Perrot was the subject of at least eight of Lempicka's paintings as well as several drawings during the 1920s and 1930s. Most notable among these was Lempicka's acclaimed Portrait of Ira P. (1931), featuring Ira in a sinuous white satin gown and red shawl, holding an armful of white calla lilies