In Roaring '20s Paris, Tamara de Lempicka was part of the bohemian life: she knew Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and André Gide
The Great Depression had little effect on her; in the early 1930s she was painting King Alfonso of Spain and Queen Elizabeth of Greece.
De Lempicka lived long enough, however, for the wheel of fashion to turn a full circle: before she died a new generation discovered her art and greeted it with enthusiasm.
