LEMPICKA IN ITALY, LEMPICKA AND ITALY
A presentation by Furio Rinaldi, curator of the exhibition at the de Young Museum
December 12, 2024 | 6:30-8:30 PM
Italian Cultural Institute @INNOVIT
710 Sansome St, San Francisco
With works that exuded cool elegance and transgressive sensuality, the Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka (1894–1980) defined 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 unique style is deeply rooted in the Italian artistic tradition of the Renaissance, as revealed in the ground-breaking exhibition currently at the deYoung museum. Join exhibition curator Furio Rinaldi on a journey to Italy to discover Tamara de Lempicka’s artistic coming of age as well as her transgressive lifestyle as she lived in Florence, Rome and Milan.
FURIO RINALDI
Dr. Furio Rinaldi is Curator in Charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the department of prints, drawings, photographs and artists’ books of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), the largest collection of works on paper in Western United States. An expert on 15th- and 16th-century Renaissance drawings, particularly the schools of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo, he has published extensively on the subject. At FAMSF, he organized the exhibitions Color into Line: Pastel from the Renaissance to the Present (2021–2022), and the critically acclaimed Botticelli Drawings (2023-24), the catalogue of which has been named among the best art books of the year by The New York Times. In 2022 he was appointed David and Julie Tobey Fellow of Italian Drawings at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.