![]() ![]() De Lempicka and Rafaela’s acquaintance was relatively brief, but Avery assumes (arguably) that she must have played a much larger role in the painter’s life based on the fact that de Lempicka was working on a copy of Beautiful Rafaela at the time of her death in 1980. After de Lempicka helped secure her husband’s release, the couple ended up in Paris but split in 1927, around the time she painted Beautiful Rafaela. ![]() In her sophomore novel The Last Nude, American writer Ellis Avery ( The Teahouse Fire) gives us de Lempicka in her heyday from the perspective of the model for one of her best-known paintings, Beautiful Rafaela.īorn Maria Górska in 1898 to a wealthy Polish family in Moscow, at 18 de Lempicka married lawyer Tadeusz Lempicki, who was arrested by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution. The painter Tamara de Lempicka’s coolly elegant portraits have become synonymous with the suave Art Deco style of 1920s Jazz-era Paris. ![]()
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