Offset lithograph, satin paper, 100 x 75 cm, published in Italy (2001) under license of Victoria de Lempicka.
The painting was painted in 1930 and sold at Christie's auction house in 1998 for $1,200,000.
The lithograph is exactly the same size as the original painting.
Ira Perrot was a friend and lover of Lempicka famous for her entertaining lifestyle, referring to herself as "hedonist No. 1."
Tamara Lempicka (1898 Warsaw- 1980 Cuernavaca)Polish artist of world renown, icon of art deco and the interwar period. She spent her early youth in Warsaw (where she was born), Switzerland (where she attended boarding school) and St. Petersburg (where she met her first husband Tadeusz Lempicki). During this period she became acquainted with Italy and with it Renaissance masters who were an inexhaustible source of inspiration. In 1918, she moved to Paris. In the French capital she began to study painting and discovered Cubism which became the flagship of her work. With the outbreak of World War II, she moved to the United States to then spend the rest of her life in Mexico. There she was also "buried", according to the artist's last will her ashes were scattered at the Popocatepetl volcano.
"I painted kings and prostitutes. I paint those who are inspiring to me and make me feel vibrations."