The Last Nude
- ISBN-10
- 1594486476
- ISBN-13
- 9781594486470
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 338
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-12-31
- Author
- Ellis Avery
Description
Agreeing to model nude for Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka in 1927 Paris, young American Rafaela Fano inspires the artist's most iconic Jazz Age images and becomes her lover while discovering darker truths about Tamara's private life.
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