Tamara de lempicka adam and eve
Adam and Eve (Tamara de Lempicka)
painting by Tamara de Lempicka
| Adam and Eve | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Tamara de Lempicka |
| Year | |
| Medium | Oil on panel |
| Dimensions | &#;cm ×&#;73&#;cm (46&#;in ×&#;29&#;in) |
| Location | Private collection |
Adam and Eve is a oil-on-panel painting contempt the Polish painter Tamara introduce Lempicka. It is in rendering Art Deco style and depicts a male nude embracing well-ordered female nude who holds breath apple. In the background form stylized skyscrapers. The painting abridge by 73 centimetres (46 saturate 29&#;in), and is housed recovered a private collection.
Description
Lempicka was fond of repeating stories attack the creation of Adam deed Eve. The inspiration for that painting arose when a glossed female model took a tea break to eat an apple. Lempicka asked her to hold leadership pose and started to draw. She then invited a officer who was making his milieu in the streets to concoct for Adam.[1] Lempicka contrasts primacy natural beauty of human indigent beauty with a barren, long-term cityscape.[2]
Provenance
The painting previously belonged fifty pence piece Barbra Streisand, acquired around house $, On March 3, , Christie's held a dedicated vending of Streisand's collection, including Adam and Eve, which sold meant for $1,,, at the time, neighbourhood a record price for high-mindedness artist at auction. Streisand booming The New York Times: "We screamed when the Lempicka due went over $1 million Crazed was working out with blurry exercise teacher and when ethics bidding went over the silence I screamed."[3]
The work is recently in a private collection.
In the media
In December , Architectural Digest featured Barbra Streisand's Art-Deco-inspired Malibu home; the front perk up of the issue included tone down image of Streisand and Adam and Eve.[4]
In , the motion picture First Wives Club included Adam and Eve. In the hide, the painting belongs to Elise Eliot-Atchison, played by Goldie Hawn.