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Tamara de Lempicka, Her Sadness, 1923
Oil on canvas, 116 × 73 cm (45 5/8 × 28 3/4 in). Private Collection.
© 2025 Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC/ ADAGP, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
In this second portrait of Ira Perrot, Lempicka captures sorrow not as a dramatic outburst, but as a presence that lingers, elegantly contained. The title alone—Her Sadness—offers a gentle detachment, suggesting that melancholy can be observed, interpreted, and rendered with empathy, even if not personally experienced. Acquired in 1924 by one of her earliest admirers and still held within the same family, this work stands as a testament to the artist’s power to transform emotion into form—transient sadness, immortalized with grace and quiet strength.
