Sotheby's will sell a collection of paintings by Tamara de Lempicka de

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house Sotheby's will sell a collection of paintings by Tamara de Lempicka de
German fashion designer Wolfgang Joop (Wolfgang Joop), founder of the brand Joop!, Auctioned Sotheby's ten paintings by Tamara de de Lempicka, the Polish artist, famous in the 1920-1930. Collection Joop, writes agency Bloomberg, estimated at 18,6 million dollars. It will sell at two sessions of the New York auctions, 5 and 6 May.
Two paintings by de de Lempicka estimated at 4-6 million dollars each: a portrait of the Duchess de La Salle and a portrait of Marjorie Ferry.
64-year-old Joop, collecting de de Lempicka paintings between 1978 and 2003, said that nothing else collects: now he became an artist and is busy with his own projects and exhibitions. The first of these will open in Rostock on 10 May.
De Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) became famous during the second half of the 1920 portraits of European celebrities. In late 1930 she moved to America, where it became popular in Hollywood. Her paintings are collected Madonna, Jack Nicholson and Barbra Streisand.
(lenta.ru)

Very nice!