Entitled Spring, the piece of graphic artwork is part of a major exhibition of Łempicka’s oeuvre and memorabilia that opens in Lublin’s National Museum on Friday, March 18.
As the showcase gets underway, Spring will be put on auction on the museum’s Facebook, the lubelski.pl website reported.
Proceeds from the auction will go to one of the local charities helping Ukraine, the museum’s director Katarzyna Mieczkowska announced.
She added that it was the painter’s great-granddaughter Marisa de Lempicka who took the decision to donate the serigraph for the benefit of Ukraine, after seeing the people of Poland come out in overwhelming support of their war-torn eastern neighbour.
Tamara Łempicka, who spent most of her life in Paris and the United States, is best known for her accomplished Art Deco portraits of the members of the financial and aristocratic elite, as well as her highly stylised nude paintings.
Saturday is day seventeen of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24.
Poland on Friday reported it had admitted 1,52 million people escaping the Russian attack on Ukraine.
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Source: lubelski.pl, zamek-lublin.pl