The Woman in the Green Bugatti: Tamara de Lempicka 🚗 LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story
A refugee, a poet across the landing, and the green Bugatti she never owned. The bisexual painter behind Art Deco's face.
Tonight we travel to the Paris of Tamara de Lempicka (1894 to 1980), who fled the Russian Revolution with little more than her family's jewels and became the defining portrait painter of Art Deco. Her first sitters were her daughter and her neighbor, the poet Ira Perrot, who became her lover and the woman she painted most, in white satin with an armful of calla lilies. She painted the model Rafaela, whom she met in the Bois de Boulogne, and painted herself at the wheel of…
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