MEMORY KEEPERS INITIATIVE
featuring Furio Rinaldi
JAN 23, 2025 @ 7:30pm
TAMARA DE LEMPICKA: QUEEN OF ART DECO
With works that exuded cool elegance and transgressive sensuality, Tamara de Lempicka (1894–1980) helped define Art Deco. Her paintings captured the glamor and vitality of postwar Paris and the cosmopolitan sheen of Hollywood celebrity. Although she moved among the most influential circles in 1920s Paris, 1940s Hollywood and beyond, her identity as a queer woman has not been widely discussed. On the occasion of the first major museum retrospective of Lempicka in the United States at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, Curator Furio Rinaldi offers an in-depth, multimedia presentation about the artist’s distinctive style and gender-defying life journey, as well has her iconic cultural influence among drag queens, pop stars, and celebrity collectors.
Ticket buyers to this event will receive a 20% discount on the Tamara exhibit at the de Young Museum.
Furio Rinaldi is curator in charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
MEDIA
works by tamara de lempicka
TAMARA DE LEMPICKA AT WORK
TAMARA DE LEMPICKA AT THE DEYOUNG MUSEUM
RAVE REVIEWS
"…a swaggering, Sapphic and sensational show…the 100 paintings and drawings deliver every inch of Lempicka’s luxuriant rigor, and they show us where the life pumps through it all."
- The New York Times
"…the retrospective is powerful and splendid."
- The Wall Street Journal
FEATURED ARTISTS
JACOB STENSBERG - Host
FURIO RINALDI - Speaker/Presenter
