AdvertisementA Passionate Portrait Of An Artist And Her MuseDecember 31, 2011NPR StafffacebookEmailTamara de Lempicka's La Belle Rafaela, painted in 1927, inspired Ellis Avery's novel The Last Nude. The art deco painter met Rafaela while on a walk in a Paris park. Rafaela became her model and her lover. (Museum Masters International NYC)
