AdvertisementA Passionate Portrait Of An Artist And Her MusePlay06:47Download AudioDecember 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)
