London’s summer season of Modern and Contemporary Art sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips took another step backwards ...

Tamara de Lempicka’s striking, sensuous portrait of her lover, La Belle Rafaëla (1927), topped Sotheby’s London Modern and contemporary evening sale on June 24, fetching £7.47 million ($10. ...

Once the toast of 1920s Paris, Tamara de Lempicka's story is now on Broadway. She was a modernist art deco artist who's better known in Europe than in the U.S.

Tamara de Lempicka’s art deco paintings — beloved by Madonna, celebrated in a musical and a major show in San Francisco — are immaculate and artificial.

What “Lempicka,” the mystifying new musical about Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, needs more than anything else is turpentine. ... Rafaela’s party-in-the-street entrance number, ...

The cast of "Lempicka" on Broadway. (Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) Espinosa treats her character as a larger-than-life diva, no doubt trying to fill out the standard Broadway assignment.

Rafaela becomes Lempicka's muse and is often in her paintings. But, it soon gets tricky, and Lempicka is caught at a crossroads between Rafaela and Lempicka's husband, work, and familial duty.

Lempicka has an affair with Rafaela, a self-reliant prostitute (magnificently played and sung by Amber Iman), and her work — portraits of confident women and statuesque nudes — is celebrated ...

De Lempicka was living in Warsaw during the Russian Revolution of 1917, meaning she and her husband Tadeusz Lempicki (Andrew Samonsky) had to flee the Bolsheviks, eventually landing with a ...