£1,400 - £1,800
Tamara de Lempicka Limited Edition "Portrait de Guido Sommi"
7700 - Stunning Tamara de Lempicka Limited Edition Titled "Portrait de Guido Sommi" A Signed Certificate by Victoria de Lempicka the Granddaughter Of Tamara de Lempicka will accompany this piece of art. Embossed Authentication Stamp by Lempicka Estate. Approved & Authorised by The Lempicka Estate (New York)framed in a bespoke hand made frame and double cut mount. Supplied with a replacement Valuation Certificate for £2000 (This is supplied at no extra cost) Of the many lovers taken by Tamara de Lempicka throughout her long and racy life, the wildly handsome Marquis Guido di Giralamo Sommi Picenardi stands as one of her few male companions to be immortalised in a portrait. He was a descendent of Italian nobility and an avant-garde musician. He was the subject of numerous paintings by the infatuated artist. In this image he is sporting a wide lapelled coat and a fur collar conveyed through thick impasto paint. He is every bit the emblem of masculine fashion and by depicting him in the Cubist influenced style of the 'Roaring Twenties' Lempicka decorates her subject with the trappings of wealth which was characteristic of the socialites and aristocrats in her work. While Lempicka would take numerous lovers throughout her life, the Italian clearly held a particular importance. H: 117cm W: 74cm D: 4cm
