Glamour, Freedom, Mystery! Join us for an intimate conversation and rare film screening on Tamara de Lempicka, in conjunction with the public opening day of the large retrospective Tamara de Lempicka. Learn more about the artist’s transgressive life and legacy from Furio Rinaldi and Gioia Mori, exhibition co-curators, in conversation with Victoria and Marisa de Lempicka, the artist’s granddaughter and great-granddaughter.

This conversation will be followed by a special screening of The Mystery of Tamara de Lempicka, tracing the story of a lost masterpiece by Lempicka, the sapphic nude “Myrto,” and an exhibition catalogue signing. 

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About the film

The Mystery of Tamara de Lempicka is part of a seven-part television series produced by Sky Arts and developed as a collaboration between Peter Glidewell, Ballandi Arts, and Factum Arte. The series Mystery of the Lost Paintings focuses on seven great paintings by Vermeer, Monet, Van Gogh, Franz Marc, Klimt, Lempicka, and Sutherland that were destroyed, stolen, or lost during the 20th century. The series brings to life the missing paintings and the artists who made them, documenting the disappearance or destruction and thrillingly observing the process by which these masterpieces are being brought back to life.

About the speakers

Furio Rinaldi is curator in charge of drawings, prints, and photographs at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where he has organized the exhibitions Botticelli Drawings (2023–2024) and Color into Line: Pastels from the Renaissance to the Present (2021–2022). Prior to joining the Museums, he was a specialist at Christie’s department of European Old Masters and 19th-century drawings and worked at the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In 2022, he was appointed the David and Julie Tobey Fellow at I Tatti—The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Gioia Mori is professor of contemporary art history at Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, and author of studies on artists ranging from Vittore Carpaccio to Helen Dryden. In 1994, she published her first book on Lempicka and has since curated many exhibitions on her, from Milan (2006) to Madrid (2018). She was scholar-adviser in the docuseries Mystery of the Lost Paintings: Tamara de Lempicka (Sky Art, 2018) and the documovie Tamara De Lempicka: Die Königin des Art Déco (NordendFilm, 2022).

Marisa Doporto de Lempicka is Tamara de Lempicka’s great-granddaughter and the president of the Tamara de Lempicka Estate.

Victoria Foxhall Doporto de Lempicka is Tamara de Lempicka’s granddaughter.

Ticket info

Free program. Theater doors will open 30 minutes before the start of the program. Seating is limited and unassigned and on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission to the theater program does not include admission to the special exhibition or other galleries in the museum. 

Contact info

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