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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

Tamara de Lempicka’s ‘remarkable nude’ of lover Rafaëla to be auctioned

La Belle Rafaëla, 1927.
Tamara de Lempicka called Rafaëla ‘the most beautiful woman I have ever seen’. Illustration: Tamara de Lempicka/Sotheby’s

When Tamara de Lempicka first came across the young sex worker Rafaëla on Bois de Boulogne in Paris, she was enchanted.

Recalling the meeting, the artist called Rafaëla “the most beautiful woman I have ever seen”.

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