Lot 103. Tamara de Lempicka1898 – 1980. Paysage de nuit, signed T. de Lempicka (upper right); signed indistinctly T. Kuffner multiple times (on the reverse), oil on canvas, 56 by 66 cm. 22 by 26 ⅛ in. Framed: 76.8 by 88.9 cm. 30 ¼ by 35 in. Executed in 1950. Provenance: Private Collection, Italy (acquired from the artist in 1950). Thence by descent from the above in 1992 to the present owner. Literature:Une Semaine de Paris, 31 May 1950, illustrated (titled Buste dans les nuages); Marc Vaux, Fonds Lempicka, M.N.A.M., Paris, 1972; Alain Blondel, Tamara de Lempicka: Catalogue Raisonné, 1921-1979, Lausanne, 1999, no. B.298, p. 357, illustrated in colour; Alain Blondel, Tamara de Lempicka Online Catalogue Raisonné, www.delempicka.org, no. B.298 (accessed 6 November 2023). Exhibited: Paris, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Union des Femmes Peintres, Sculpteurs, et Décorateurs,1950, no. 607, p. 23, listed (titled Buste dans les nuages). Estimate 300,000 – 500,000 GBP. Sotheby’s. 03/05/24. Sold 550,000 GBP

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Lot 104. Tamara de Lempicka 1898 – 1980. Le Turban rose, oil on Masonite, 25.5 by 20.3 cm. 10 by 8 in. Framed: 48.5 by 43.5 cm. 19 ⅛ by 17 ⅛ in. Executed circa 1945. Provenance: Private Collection, Italy (acquired from the artist in 1950); Thence by descent from the above in 1992 to the present owner. Literature: Marc Vaux, Fonds Lempicka, M.N.A.M., Paris, 1972; Alain Blondel, Tamara de Lempicka: Catalogue Raisonné, 1921-1979, Lausanne, 1999, no. B.266, p. 339, illustrated in colour; Alain Blondel, Tamara de Lempicka Online Catalogue Raisonné, www.delempicka.org, no. B.266 (accessed on 6 November 2023). Estimate 120,000 – 200,000 GBP. Sotheby’s. 03/07/24. Sold 120,000 GBP