Pola Negri
Artist:
Tadé Styka
(French, born Poland, 1889 - 1954)
Culture: French
Date: 1924
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
unframed: 54 1/4 x 42 1/2 in. (137.8 x 108 cm)
framed: 66 3/4 x 55 in. (169.5 x 139.7 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Pola Negri
Object number: 87.39.1
Signed: m/l/r Tade Styka
Copyright: © Tade Styka
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter, Pola Negri (1897-1987); her bequest to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1987.
Label Text
Hollywood screen siren Pola Negri, in a stunning emerald gown and matching fur-trimmed wrap, meets her audience with a self-assured gaze in this glamorous portrait. Negri starred in more than sixty movies, among them the popular silent films Forbidden Paradise (1924) and Hotel Imperial (1927). She was equally famous for her life off-screen, including two marriages and romances with Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino. Negri retired to San Antonio with her close friend Margaret West in 1957. On her death in 1987, Negri left much of her estate to Saint Mary’s University and Trinity University and bequeathed several paintings to the Museum. (J. Powers, 2021)
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In Collection(s)
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