Tamara de Lempicka was born Maria Gorska in Warsaw, Poland, in 1898. Introduced to art at the age of 12, her mother had paid for an established painter to create her daughter’s portrait. Unsatisfied with the results and convinced that she could do better herself, de Lempicka set out on a task that would subsequently carve out a successful, if tumultuous career. She married young and gave birth to her only child — a daughter named Kizette whilst living in St. Petersburg. Forced to leave the city as a refugee during the Soviet Revolution, she fled to Paris through financial necessity and learned to paint, exhibit and sell her works.
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