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Avery, Ellis.
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Lempicka, Tamara de, 1898-1980 -- Fiction.
Women painters -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Americans -- France -- Fiction.
Artists' models -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
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Avery, Ellis.
Lempicka, Tamara de, 1898-1980 -- Fiction.
Women painters -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Americans -- France -- Fiction.
Artists' models -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
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The last nude / Ellis Avery.
by
Avery, Ellis.
Riverhead Books, c2012.
Call #:
FICTION
AVE
Subjects
Lempicka
,
Tamara
de
,
1898-1980
--
Fiction
.
Women painters
--
Fiction
.
Young women
--
Fiction
.
Americans
--
France
--
Fiction
.
Artists' models
--
Fiction
.
Paris (France)
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781594488139
1594488134
Description:
310 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars. Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter
Tamara
de
Lempicka
. Struggling to halt a downward slide toward prostitution, Rafaela agrees to model for the artist, a dispossessed Saint Petersburg aristocrat with a murky past. The two become lovers, and Rafaela inspires
Tamara
's most iconic Jazz Age images, among them her most accomplished-and coveted-works of art. A season as the painter's muse teaches Rafaela some hard lessons:
Tamara
is a cocktail of raw hunger and glittering artifice. And all the while, their romantic idyll is threatened by history's darkening tide. Inspired by real events in
de
Lempicka
's history, The Last Nude is a tour
de
force of historical imagination. Ellis Avery gives the reader a tantalizing window into a lost Paris, an age already vanishing as the inexorable forces of history close in on two tangled lives. Spellbinding and provocative, this is a novel about genius and craft, love and desire, regret and, most of all, hope that can transcend time and circumstance."--Publisher.
Genre:
Historical
fiction
.
Love stories.
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