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.

The musical focuses on Lempicka's bisexuality and explores her relationships with two significant loves: her unremarkable husband, Tadeusz Lempicki, and the dynamic Parisian prostitute, Rafaela.

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.

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.

The auction totalled £62.5m—down 25% year-on-year—but Sotheby's says it is committed to holding June sales in London despite ...

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.

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