Tamara Lempicka's paintings began to be exhibited in the most prestigious galleries in Europe. They were mainly portraits of famous and interesting personalities, which should already interest those willing to buy antique art. Many critics referred to Lempicki's art as commercial because it enabled her to become one of the brightest socialites by granting her work extreme antique valuations.

A socialite, cosmopolitan, lover, artist, art deco icon, dandy woman and Madonna's favourite artist. Tamara Lempicka's life was simultaneously brilliant, lengthy, and happy—like winning the lottery. She was a brush genius who also excelled in beauty and advertising. True, people who looked into her life after her passing struggled since she raised a lot of mystery and reinvented whole sections of her biography, making her life as much a canvas for work as those on which she painted her amazing pictures, so sought by antique dealers that buy antiques today.

Lempicka claimed to have been born in Warsaw, in her own words. She has primarily lived in Paris and the United States for most of her artistic life. This explains why, although she was truly international, many Americans mistakenly identified her as a French artist. She lived worldwide, from St. Petersburg to New York and from London to Los Angeles. This reflects the interesting alias she used to change Maria Gursky into Tamara de Lempicka. 

She depicted the elite society of Paris, Milan, and New York: men and women in suits, bow ties, and flashy, bold clothing. Undoubtedly, famous people immortalised on canvas affect not only antique painting price but also their immortal cultural value.

She was greatly influenced by Cubism and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' futurist and classicist aesthetics. She established herself in an important role in the art world in Paris, where she resided in the "Roaring Twenties" with her first husband, the Polish lawyer Tadeusz Lempicki. As a result, true connoisseurs are eager to search for her artwork among antique paintings for sale.

^{Tamara de Limpicka. Femme a la Mandoline. Circa 1933. Source: antique arena}

Despite having her work displayed in the Salon d'Automne, Salon des Indépendents, and Salon des Tuileries, she was a socialite, the mistress of numerous men, and friends with James Joyce and Jean Cocteau. These factors contributed to her rise in popularity. She was married but bisexual and had affairs with both men and women. Thus she was not restrained by any moral principles. She went out to clubs, used drugs, and lived as independently and freely as possible. 

Her renown was both a blessing and a curse since, when she and her second husband, Baron Raoul Küffner, moved to New York in 1939, she was not taken seriously, and her work was viewed as antiquated in postmodern America. Tamara continued her conquest of secular society in the United States. Her attire was consistently "on." The artist became one of the fashionable women, solidifying her position as a pioneer in glitzy style and clothing for a very long time. Before switching to abstract art, she began painting still lifes but failed to duplicate her former success. She had taken three travels around the globe by the time Baron Küffner passed away in 1961, regardless of how lavish they may have been. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Galerie Luxembourg in Paris in 1973, riding the crest of a resurgence in interest in Art Deco and paintings from the Roaring Twenties. Tamara's celebrity status returned right away. It was written about her. Huge sums of money were paid to purchase her works. Tamara herself departs into the countryside of Mexico. She may have made a bigger impression on the society of the 1970s than she could have with her brand-new silk attire and expensive banquets. 

Later, her daughter relocated with Tamara to take care of her. The celebrity was ageing. She had reached the age of 80 when her strength started to wane. Tamara passed away in the Mexican spring of 1980, which had vivid, luscious hues reminiscent of Lempicki's paintings.

One of the first socialites of the 1920s was Tamara Lempicka. She enchanted the world not just with her beauty and mannerism but also with her outlandish beliefs about creation and the general consensus.

^{Cover image: Painter Tamara Łempicka in her studio in Krakow, National Museum, Krakow, Poland. Source: commons.wikipedia}