Tamara de Lempicka

…for my inspiration…I liked to go out in the evenings…

and have a good-looking man tell me how beautiful I am

or how great an artist I am –

and he touches my hand … I loved it! – I needed that.

And I had many, many.”

Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara de Lempicka (Łempicka) (16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980), born Maria Górska in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter and “the first woman artist to be a glamour star”.