Kizette de Lempicka was born Marie-Christine de Lempicka on September 16, 1916. Kizette and her temperamental mother's relationship was at times stormy, but they seemed oddly close. Tamara often had her daughter model though did not always admit to others she had a child. Many of her friends were unaware of Kizette's existence. Tamara titled paintings of Kizette with anonymous titles such as Girl on a Balcony or First Communion.

Girl on a Balcony was important in Tamara de Lempicka's artistic career as it won her first major award, First Prize at the Exposition Internationale in 1927.

Baroness Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall wrote Passion by Design: The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka, her memoirs of her mother in 1986.

Tamara deLempicka is perhaps the most famous painter of the art deco period. She was born in Poland and moved to Russia where she lived until the Bolsheviks arrested her husband during the Russian revolution. She secured his release and they fled to Paris. there she learned to paint, enrolling at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere and studying privately. She was quite a prolific artist (in part facilitated by her spare simple style) and was much sought after as a portrait artist. If you are interested in learning more about Tamara deLempicka I highly recommend Passion by Design by her daughter, Kizette deLempicka-Foxhall.

In 1940 having recently moved from Hollywood to France, Tamara had glamorous photos taken and sent them to newspapers with the caption, "Tamara de Limpicka, Polish Baroness Kuffner, who has arrived in America where her paintings are being shown in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. She has been invited by the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh to exhibit her work."

Then she ran newspaper ......The entire biography is included in the gallery in English and Español