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Statue of Tamara Łempicka (Kielce, Poland)

    Tamara Łempicka, (b. Warsaw, Poland, 1898 – d. 1980, Cuernavaca, Mexico) better known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. Born in Warsaw, Lempicka moved to Saint Petersburg where she married Tadeusz Łempicki, a Polish lawyer, then traveled to Paris. Following the outbreak of World War II in 1939, she moved to the United States. Her work made a comeback in the late 1960s, with the rediscovery of Art Deco. She moved to Mexico in 1974, where she died in 1980.

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