The address is directly across the street from the low-slung Hotel des Castries. It also happens to be down the street from one of the Paris homes of Edith Wharton at 53 rue de Varenne. Ellis Avery states that she selected this site because it would have had good northern light for painting. Tamara de Lempicka’s fictional apartment and art studio stands at 63 rue de Varenne in the 7th arrondissement on the Left Bank. Tamara de Lempicka’s Fictional Apartment and Studio: I’ll be sharing some of my photos and impressions from my tour over the next week, along with a sneak peek into a deleted excerpt from the book. There are so many Paris treats in this book, from the original Shakespeare & Co., to houseboats on the Seine, to a character modeled after Ernest Hemingway, that I just couldn’t resist planning my own Last Nude Literary Tour of Paris.
One of de Lempicka’s portraits of Rafaela (“The Dream”) graces the cover of the book.įor more about the book, check out the author’s interview with NPR and in Public Culture. Set in the glamourous 1920’s Paris art world, it tells the story of the real-life Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka through the eyes of her lover, model and muse, the Italian-American Rafaela Fano. The Last Nude by Ellis Avery is a perfect Paris read.
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