Tamara de Lempicka Trivia Questions

The film’s costumes were by Emil Pirchan. Lempicka did paint Dietrich’s portrait, but never worked directly on any film productions.

Lempicka studied under Maurice Denis and André Lhote, not Picasso. She admired Picasso but never trained with him.

Her sharp, geometric style owes more to Cubism and Neoclassicism. Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro is less relevant; she admired Bronzino and Ingres instead.

Born in Poland to a wealthy family, she escaped the Bolsheviks in 1917 and settled in Paris, where her Art Deco portraits of the elite made her famous.

Per her will, her daughter Kizette scattered her ashes from a helicopter over the volcano in 1980, honoring her love for dramatic landscapes.

No such album cover exists. Lempicka’s work has appeared on book covers and fashion magazines, but not on Supertramp albums.

In February 2020, Christie’s auctioned the 1932 portrait for $21.1 million, setting a record for the artist and for any Art Deco painting.

Lempicka had many lovers of both sexes. Her affair with Solidor, known for her lesbian relationships, was an open secret in Parisian society.