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===The United States and Mexico (1939–1980)=== In the winter of 1939, following the outbreak of World War II, Lempicka and her husband moved to the United States. They settled first in Los Angeles. The Paul Reinhard Gallery organized a show of her work, and they moved to [[Beverly Hills]], settling into the former residence of the film director [[King Vidor]]. Shows of her work were organized at the Julian Levy Gallery in New York, the Courvoisier Galleries in San Francisco, and the Milwaukee Institute of Art, but her shows did not have the success she had hoped for. Her daughter Kizette was able to escape from occupied France via Lisbon and joined them in Los Angeles in 1941. Kizette married a Texas geologist, Harold Foxhall. In 1943, Baron Kuffner and de Lempicka relocated to [[New York, New York|New York City]].{{sfnp|Néret|2016|page=93}} In the postwar years, she continued a frenetic social life, but she had fewer commissions for society portraits. Her art deco style looked anachronistic in the period of postwar [[modernism]] and [[abstract expressionism]]. She expanded her subject matter to include still lifes, and in 1960 she began to paint abstract works and to use a palette knife instead of her smooth earlier brushwork. She sometimes reworked earlier pieces in her new style. The crisp and direct ''Amethyste'' (1946) became the pink and fuzzy ''Girl with Guitar'' (1963). She had a show at the [[Ror Volmar Gallery]] in Paris in May and June 1961, but it did not revive her earlier success.{{sfnp|Claridge|Lempicka |1999|p=281}} Baron Kuffner died of a heart attack in November 1961 on the ocean liner ''[[SS Europa (1928)|Liberté]]'' en route to New York.<ref>Mori (2011), pp. 322, 324.</ref> Following his death, Lempicka sold many of her possessions and made three around-the-world trips by ship. In 1963, Lempicka moved to [[Houston, Texas]], to be with Kizette and her family and retired from her life as a professional artist.{{sfnp|Néret|2016|page=93}} She continued to repaint her earlier works. She repainted her well-known ''Autoportrait'' (1929) twice between 1974 and 1979; ''Autoportrait II'' was sold, though she hung ''Autoportrait III'' in her retirement apartments, where it would remain until her death.<ref name="oem.com.mx" /> The last work she painted was the fourth copy of her painting of St. Anthony.<ref name="delempicka.org" /> In 1974, she decided to move to [[Cuernavaca]], Mexico. After the death of her husband in 1979, Kizette moved to Cuernavaca to take care of de Lempicka, whose health was declining. De Lempicka died in her sleep on 18 March 1980. Following her wishes, her ashes were scattered over the volcano [[Popocatépetl]].{{sfnp|Lempicka-Foxhall|1987|p=58}}
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