Tamara De Lempicka🦋

Tamara de Lempicka, The Dream (Rafaela against a green background), Le Rêve (Rafaëla sur fond vert), 1927, Oil on canvas.

La belle Rafaela:
In the biography she devoted to her mother, Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall informs us that “la belle” Rafaëla apparently approached Lempicka during one of the latter’s daily morning walks in the Bois de Boulogne. The young woman, presented to us as a nymphomaniac, is said to have struck Lempicka by her beauty “...Never had I seen a more beautiful woman - enormous black eyes, a splendid body. I stopped her and asked: ‘Miss, I am a painter and I would like you to come sit for me. Would you accept?’ She answered: ‘Yes, why not?’ So I said to her: ‘Well, then, come along. My car is here.’ Lempicka seems to have been fully satisfied with her model, since she had her continue the sittings for over a year: for “ The Pink Tunic” in particular, but apparently she can also be recognized in “The Dream”, which is captioned “Rafaëla against a Green Background” in an article by Arsène Alexandre (“Tamara de Lempicka”, La Renaissance de l’art français et des industries de luxe, July, 1929)”. #artdeco #happyhalloween #artist #tamaradelempicka