Portrait of Marjorie Ferry
Portrait of Marjorie Ferry is a 1932 oil painting by Tamara de Lempicka, a Polish Art Deco artist. It shows a young blonde woman walking on a marble balcony, wearing a white satin wrap and a bright, large cabochon ring on her finger. Her skin is smooth and her nails are perfectly manicured, and modern architectural shapes surround her. She looks at the viewer with a seductive, gentle smile, giving the scene a sense of mystery. The image captures glamorous Paris society in the 1930s.
The portrait depicts Marjorie Ferry, a British cabaret singer who performed in Paris in the 1930s. It was commissioned by her husband in 1932 and painted in Lempicka’s studio on Rue Méchain as a gift to his wife. Some call it the "Art Deco Mona Lisa" because her smile and facial features resemble Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Lempicka mixed modern and classical styles, using Renaissance and Cubist influences.
In February 2020, Portrait of Marjorie Ferry sold at Christie’s in London for £16.3 million ($21.2 million), a record price for a work by Lempicka and the most expensive Polish artist painting at the time.
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