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Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898 – March 18, 1980), a Polish Art Deco painter, was born Maria Górska in Warsaw, Poland.
Early life
Born into a wealthy and prominent family, her father was a Polish lawyer, her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Polish socialite. Maria was the middle child with two siblings. She attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and spent the winter of 1911 with her grandmother in Italy and the French Riviera, where she was treated to her first taste of the Great Masters of Italian painting. In 1912, her parents divorced and Maria went to live with her wealthy Aunt Stefa in St. Petersberg, Russia. When her mother remarried, she became determined to break away to a life of her own. In 1913, at the age of fifteen, while attending the opera, Maria spotted the man she became determined to marry. She promoted her campaign through her well-connected uncle and in 1916 she married Tadeusz Lempicki in St. Petersburg; a well-known ladies man, gadabout, and lawyer by title, who was tempted by the significant dowry.
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04/09/08
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Created by Josephine Chervinska
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03/14/08
This image is of a creation displayed at the Burning Man Project Festival. The Burning Man Project is a somewhat surreal, marvelous annual event that everyone should attend at least once.
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03/14/08
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