Tamara de Lempicka, The Musician, 1929
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
The Musician embodies Lempicka’s masterful fusion of classical elegance and modern dynamism. The figure, ethereal and almost seraphic, cradles an instrument with melancholic reverence, seemingly suspended in time. Bathed in shades of deep blue—the color of the infinite, of sound dissolving into air—she appears lost in a world beyond the canvas. Behind her, the angular contours of a futuristic metropolis rise, a striking contrast to her Renaissance-inspired grace. This juxtaposition between the old and the new, the earthly and the transcendent, creates an atmosphere of quiet mystery, as if music itself is the bridge between two realms.