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One half of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Visit our sister museum @legionofhonor.

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[Tamara de Lempicka, "Wisdom (La Sagesse)," 1940-1941, © 2024 Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, NY. © 2019 Christie’s Images Limited]

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DYK our new exhibition, “#TamaradeLempicka,” is the first major museum retrospective of Lempicka in the US? 💌

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See her striking and rarely publicly displayed work for yourself at, "Tamara de Lempicka," on view now through February 9, 2025.

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[Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of a Man (Thadeusz Łempicki) or Unfinished Portrait of a Man, 1928. © 2024 Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, NY. Digital Image © CNAC/MNAM, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY]

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Meet the mysterious and revolutionary Art Deco painter, Tamara de Lempicka...

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[Thérèse Bonney, Tamara de Lempicka working on "Portrait of a Man (Thadeusz Łempicki)", ca. 1929. © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Source : Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque historique, NN-006-09335]

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@LempickaMarisa "Tamara de Lempicka" opens to the public tomorrow, Saturday, October 12! Join us for a very special opening program, and explore the world of Lempicka for yourself 💫

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"We arrived in Paris with nothing... And after every painting I would sell, I would buy myself a diamond bracelet. And I would paint day and night until I had diamond bracelets from here to here." —#TamaradeLempicka, as told to her great-granddaughter, Marisa de Lempicka 💎

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Watch our new documentary to learn more about this fascinating artist, as seen through the eyes of her great-granddaughter and manager of her estate, @LempickaMarisa, and curator Furio Rinaldi. Find it in full on our YouTube page or by clicking the link: https://t.co/tXgCNyJBWb

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Follow our interns on a tour of our paper conservation lab at the Legion of Honor 🕊️🏛️

#ArtConservation #PaperConservation #LegionOfHonor

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#Portraiture #Demure #Brat

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We don't make the rules 💁‍♀️

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[Joseph Wright, "John Coats Browne," ca. 1784]

[James Earl, "Mrs. John Rogers (Elizabeth Rodman Rogers)," ca. 1795]

[John Vanderlyn, "Caius Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage," 1807]

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[Robert Bechtle, "34th Avenue" (detail), 1987. © Robert Bechtle and Whitney Chadwick Trust]

#SFArt

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Home sweet home ❤️ what are your favorite #SanFrancisco streets?

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Come visit his work and see what other local sites you can spot throughout his mesmerizing art 🎨