With her portraits of red-lipped women painted like sculptures in resplendent jewel tones, the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka has posthumously become an Art Deco icon. Her figures are sumptuous ...

In the USA, the focus is on art, with a show of Tamara de Lempicka, the doyenne of Art Deco painters, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (9 March to 26 May) and a wide-ranging exhibition at the ...

Despite being one of the most recognized Art Deco painters during the genre’s heyday of the 1920s and ‘30s, de Lempicka and her work have never been the subject of a major U.S. retrospective ...

Her work was only rediscovered again in the 1970s, following a resurgence of interest in Art Deco. Even then, her legacy had to compete with those of famous male artists. “This exhibition aims ...

With sleek folds in the silver dress and the city's architecture rendered with obvious cubist Art Deco style, the painting sends multiple messages of poise and precarity. Another 1927 portrait ...

Back then, women painting other women in compromising positions ... The latter illustrates Perrot in her fully realized Art Deco glory. For "Portrait of Mrs. Rufus Bush" (1929), Lempicka ...

Her visual style came to epitomize art deco (more a design movement that borrowed ... tubular forms of artists like Fernand Léger and Aristide Maillol with the trembling sensuousness of ...

and a newly recovered painting long lost to the Oviatt. Photo courtesy Art Deco Society of Los Angeles “They can come see the exhibit and enjoy our centennial cocktail menu curated from period ...

Ron Hill, a fan of New Orleans’ history and architecture, needed just one visit to Lakefront Airport to ignite his enthusiasm about its art deco design. In a Curious Louisiana query, Hill wrote ...