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Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of the Marquis of Afflito (on the staircase), 1926
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 Portrait of the Marquis of Afflito (on the staircase), Lempicka captures aristocratic nonchalance with cinematic flair. The Marquis, dapper in his bow tie and a rakishly tilted felt hat, ascends—or perhaps lingers—on a grand staircase that feels more like a stage than a passageway. His pose, effortless yet deliberate, exudes the cultivated elegance of a bygone world. Lempicka's attention to symbolic detail—the accessories, the architecture, the shadowplay—aligns her not only with the great portraitists, but with the era’s master poster artists, where every element enhances identity through design.
