Tamara Lempicka (1898 Warsaw - 1980 Cuernavaca), Woman in a Turban, ca. 1956.

color aquatint, paper, 32.5 × 26.5 cm in light passe-partout (top edge of sheet trimmed)
signed in pencil p. d.: "T. de Lempicka", inscribed in pencil l. d.: "15/200"

"Lempicka's portraits, still lifes and nudes are a perfect realization of the Art Deco style: subordinated to it are both the type, costume, hairstyle and posing of the model, as well as all the background props and, finally, the painter's workshop itself. Post-cubist stylization: emphasizing with drawing and light the three-dimensionality and hardness of forms, sharpness of color, smoothness of metallic, shiny surfaces, monumentalization, mannerism of shots and enamel precision of finishing make up Lempicka's style perfectly in keeping with the aesthetics of the 1920s."
A. Morawinska, "Tamara Lempicka 1927," in Dialogue 1991, vol. 26, no. 5-6