Tamara de Lempicka—The Queen of Art Déco (2022)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 53M
Director : Sylvie Kürsten
Synopsis
Hardly anyone knows the artist, but almost everyone knows her paintings: Tamara de Lempicka, icon of the 1920s. Her art deco paintings of women in cars or in evening dress adorn book covers and break auction records. But who was she? The ARTE documentary by Grimme Prize-winning author Sylvie Kürsten ventures a self-portrait of Lempicka, narrated and played by Nicole Heesters.
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