#self portrait in the green bugatti

[hopefulmilkshakeengineer]

"Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti" painted by Tamara Łempicka, 1929

[artdecoandmodernist]

1929 Tamara de Lempicka's iconic 'Self-Portrait (Tamara in Green Bugatti)’ is one of the Polish artist's most famous paintings. 

[canvasmirror]

Tamara de Lempicka (Polish, 1898-1980) • My Portrait (Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti) • 1928 • Private collection

" My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models. " – Tamara de Lempicka1

[boselliart]

[swallowedby]

Tamara de Lempicka

Her famous painting The Green Bugatti was actually a self portrait and what I love about her amazing works is she often repainted them.

"I was the first woman to make clear paintings, and that was the origin of my success … Among a hundred canvases, mine were always recognizable."

Be bold and be authentic. The world needs more you!

[pinadosie]

self-portrait in the green bugatti

tamara de lempicka

1925

[0ceanplayground]

MY PORTRAIT, Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti (1929)

-Tamara de Lempicka

[europebetweenthewars]

Tamara de Lempicka - Self-portrait in the green Bugatti. Paris, 1928

[ruiz-adame]

Self portrait in the green Bugatti (1925) - Tamara de Lempicka

[proartsblog]

Self Portrait in a Green Bugatti, 1925 by Tamara Lempicka

[oliviaalexandraamores]

"Tamara in the Green Bugatti", 1929 self-portrait by Polish Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka 🖌🎨

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (3/5/21) Tamara de Lempicka (Polish, 1898-1980) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait in a Green Bugatti)(1929) Oil on panel, 35 x 26.6 cm. Private Collection (Switzerland)

This work is one of the best-known examples of Art Deco portrait painting.  Commissioned by the German fashion magazine "Die Dame" for its cover to celebrate the independence of women, the artist chose to portray herself at the wheel of a Bugatti racing car, wearing a leather helmet and gloves and wrapped in a gray scarf -- an image redolent with cold beauty, independence, wealth and inaccessibility.  (De Lempicka did not own a Bugatti; her own car was a small yellow Renault.)

[bermudianabroad]

Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti) Tamara Łempicka 
 1929 
A woman I knew as a teenager, my mother’s friend, died last week from Covid-19. They volunteered together at an art gallery and I’d schlemp there after school on a Monday and sit in the air conditioning listening to them talk and laugh. She was 90 something, but the kind of 90 something that clearly had another decade or two in her. She was a wine-ing and dining 90 something who had a sharp mind and a sharp wit and a wicked sense of humour. She was in a nursing home, and the virus just ripped through it. We can’t choose how we go, but I think she’d rather have gone laughing over brunch, champagne bubbles on her tongue. Or been thrown from a speeding convertible, recklessly driven. So I’m posting this painting up in her memory.

[makingqueerhistory]

Queer Artists from History to Learn More About

Just for fun, I thought I would compile a list of a few queer artist from history you might not recognize.

Claudio Bravo

“If I had to choose an age into which I’d fit, it would have to be the seventeenth century. During that time artists copied nature in a conceptual way. They transformed the reality of their times as I try to transform the reality of ours.”

[Image description: A photorealistic painting of a woman on a couch with animals around her]

Circe, 1986

Amrita Sher-Gil

“Towards the end of 1933, I began to be haunted by an intense longing to return to India, feeling in some strange, inexplicable way that there lay my destiny as a painter.”

[Image Description: A post-impressionistic oil painting of three girls sitting together]

Three Girls, 1935

Tamara de Lempicka

"I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe. "

[Image Description: An art deco style painting of a woman driving a green car.]

My Portrait (Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti), 1929

Sadao Hasegawa

“Today, the cherry blossoms are in full bloom. In the section of Tokyo, known as Kudan, stands the mighty Yasukini shrine. Directly in from of the shrine is the Maruyama Gallery. It is here, that the opening ceremonies for a show of works by Sadao Hasegawa are being held. From a window in the gallery, a clear view of the Indian Embassy is visible. It was in India, that the birth of Buddha took place. Perhaps, the two masters are eternally inseparable.” – Bungaku Ito

[Image Description: Grayscale drawing of Sadao Hasegawa, a Japanese man with short dark hair shaved shorted on the sides. There are lines and circles around him as he looks away.]

[the1920sinpictures]

1925 “Self Portrait in a Green Bugatti” by Tamara Lempicka. From Art Deco, FB.