Tamara de Lempicka<\/strong> was a very controversial artist, she was a bisexual woman who was twice in her life a victim of, then capable of rebirth from persecution first by the Bolsheviks and then by the Nazis, the object of stereotypes even by those who accused her of snobbery when she had survived poverty and hardship. Tamara escaped with her husband and daughter<\/strong> to Copenhagen, joining her parents and then went to London, before settling in Paris.<\/p>\n
\nShe was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1898 into a wealthy Jewish family, of a Polish mother and a Russian father, who died prematurely when she was only five years old. In 1917, when the Russian Revolution<\/strong> began, her family fled the country, while Tamara and her husband, who was militating in the counterrevolutionary ranks, stayed and had a daughter. Their home was attacked by Bolsheviks in the middle of the night, Tamara’s husband was arrested<\/strong> and his house ransacked. she searched for him in the prisons and after several weeks, with the help of the Swedish consul, obtained his release.<\/p>\n