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Tamara de Lempicka, The Escape, 1940
Oil on canvas, 50.8 × 40.6 cm (20 × 16 in). Musée d'arts de Nantes, France
© 2025 Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC/ ADAGP, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
The Escape emerges as a powerful testament to the emotional turbulence of war, painted shortly after Lempicka's arrival in the United States. The large American-format canvas emphasizes the vast emotional and physical distance from the artist’s European past, capturing a moment of tense escape, both personal and collective. The figures, fraught with urgency and despair, embody the hardships of wartime Europe—an atmosphere of anxiety, displacement, and the struggle for survival. Originally displayed under the title Somewhere in Europe at the 1941 Julian Levy Gallery in New York, the painting conveys a sense of loss and the raw urgency of fleeing from destruction.
