'The Baroness with a Brush' Google Doodle celebrates Tamara de Lempicka’s 120th birthday
GOOGLE’s latest search engine Doodle has celebrated the 120th birthday of Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, who was also known as the “Baroness with a Brush”.
Her works were noticed by American journalists for outlet Harper's Bazaar and other fashion outlets
The artistic maestro spent her life working in France and the United States - she is best known for her polished Art-Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy.
She was also famous for her stylised paintings of nudes.
Tamara de Lempicka was born in Warsaw on May 16, 1898 - she studied painting with Maurice Denis and André Lhote.
Her father was Boris Gurwik-Górski, a Russian Jewish attorney for a French trading company while her mother was a Polish socialite named Malwina Decler.
In 1911 she was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland before she left early.
Her grandmother then took her on a tour of Italy where she developed an interest in art.
The Russian Revolution in 1917 forced the artistic genius to find refuge in Paris.
It was in the French capital she pursued a life of painting after her sister suggested she take on the passion.
Lempicka studied at the Académie de la Grand Chaumière with Maurice Denis, and then with André Lhote who both had influences on her artistic style.
The artist’s breakthrough came in 1925 when she exhibited paintings at two major venues at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts.
Her works were noticed by American journalists for outlet Harper's Bazaar and other fashion outlets.
The publicity drawn from the event made her name and style known.
Google's latest search engine Doodle has celebrated the 120th birthday of Tamara de Lempicka
During the peak of her artistic career in the 1930s Lempicka became known for her celebrity portraits and nudes.
She painted Spain’s King Alfonso XIII and Queen Elizabeth of Greece.
Lempicka was most famous for her neoclassical and cubism style.
The Russian Revolution in 1917 forced the artistic genius to find refuge in Paris
The painter became known as the “Baroness with a Brush” after she married an art collector from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1934.
Baron Raoul Kuffner’s wife had died the year before although the artist had become his mistress in 1928.
Lempicka died on March 18, 1980 - she was aged 81.