eclat

Few American artists of the 20th century arrived with quite his éclat.

A concurrent selling exhibition at Sotheby’s, “The World of Tamara: A Celebration of Lempicka and Art Deco,” features several of Lempicka’s paintings, including “L’Éclat,” a portrait of a woman, her hair coiled like strips of film, and “Nu aux Buildings,” a sensuous nude backed by skyscrapers.

He was soigné, to use one of his favorite words, and he had éclat, to use another.

“Both,” replied Elizabeth archly; “for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the éclat of a proverb.”

Christopher Curtin, the master chocolatier who owns Éclat Chocolate in West Chester, Pa., makes his chocolate June bugs seasonally.