Femme à la Mandoline. Um 1933.
Etching and aquatint.
LSigned and numbered "15/100" in the lower left. From an edition of 100 copies. On off-white wove paper, laminated on cardboard. 57 x 36 cm (22.4 x 14.1 in). Sheet: 75,5 x 54 cm (29,52 x 21,25 in).
Based on the paintig "La Musicienne" from 1929. [MH/JS].

• Large-format composition in the timeless cool Art Deco style so characteristic of the artist.
• In 2018, a painting with the same motif, “La Musicienne”, sold in New York for 8 million euros, at the time the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by the artist.
• Lempicka's sophisticated Art Deco style masterfully combines influences from Cubism and the New Objectivity.

PROVENANCE: Family-owned ever since.

LITERATURE: Alain Blondel, Tamara de Lempicka. Catalog raisonné 1921-1979, Lausanne 1999, p. 472, catalogue raisonné no. A.152 (illustrated, different copy).

Good overall impression. With mount staining. With slight traces of rubbing and retouching, primarily in the area of the skirt and the forearm. Paper with superficial blemishes and framing-related rubbing, creasing and signs of wear around the edges. Mounted on backing board.