Portrait of Pola Negri

Tadeusz (Tade) Styka (Polish, 1889-1954): Portrait of Pola Negri, 1922 (Oil on canvas, National Museum, Warsaw) - In this portrait, Styka depicted Negri as a liberated woman, a symbol of her era… Seeing that the public on the other side of the Atlantic was also interested in her, she decided to immigrate to America in 1923. Negri achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles…