Tamara de Lempicka,“Portrait of Madame M.”

Tamara de Lempicka,“Portrait of Madame M.”

ARTIST: Tamara de Lempicka
TITLE: “Portrait of Madame M.”
AUCTION HOUSE: Christie’s
ESTIMATE: $6 million to $8 million

(Source: New York Times) While the odd painting by the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka comes up at auction every year or so, the market is flooded with them this season.
Epitomizing Paris in the roaring 1920s and 1930s, Lempicka’s work consists primarily of glamorous portraits of men and women of the period. This one, “Portrait of Madame M.,’’was painted in 1932 when André Morillot, a French lawyer, commissioned Lempicka to paint his wife, Marie-Thérèse Morand Morillot, as a gift to her after their marriage in 1929.