Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) was born (Tamara) Maria Gorska, the middle child of a well-to-do Polish family, by age 14 she was attending school in Lausanne, Switzerland and vacationed in Saint Petersburg where she met Tadeusz Lempicka; they married in 1916 when she was 16. The Bolsheviks arrested her husband during the Russian revolution, but […]