Tamara de Lempicka

M. Baudry, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1927)

Galerie du Luxembourg, Paris (acquired by 1967)

Private Collection, France (acquired by 1975)

Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 1985, lot 355

Barry Friedman, New York (acquired from the above sale)

Private Collection, USA

Simon Dickinson Inc., New York (on consignment from the above)

Acquired through the above on 8 August 1997 by the present owner

Tamara de Lempicka, Album-photos annoté, Houston, 1923, no. 57

M. Meytrand, Le Soir, 10 November 1927

“The Autumn Salon in Paris,” The Christian Science Monitor, 19 December 1927, p. 9

Eve, January 1928

De Pavlovski, Le Journal, 20 January 1928

M. Meytrand, Le Soir, 27 January 1928

Turpin, Tronée Active, February 1928

“Art and Oddity in the New Shows. The Cult of the Macabre in the Paris Salon des Indépendants,” The Graphic, 11 February 1928, p. 233, illustrated (titled La Belle Raphaela)

Turpin, Revue méditerranéene, March 1928

Georges Rémon, “Tamara de Lempicka,” Mobilier et Décoration, January 1929, vol. IX, no. 1, p. 32, illustrated

Arsène Alexandre, “Tamara de Lempicka,” Le Renaissance de l'Art Francais, vol. XII, July 1929, p. 333, illustrated

Marc Vaux, Fonds Lempicka, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1972, no. 57

Bruce Bernard, “Tamara’s World,” The Sunday Times, 22 August 1976, p. 21, illustrated in colour

Giancarlo Marmori, Tamara de Lempicka, Milan, 1977, p. 57, illustrated

Franco Maria Ricci, ed., Tamara de Lempicka, avec le journal d'Aélis Mazouer, gouvernante de Gabriele d'Annunzio, Milan, 1977, p. 63, illustrated in colour

Dorothy Seiberling, “Siren of a Stylish Era,” The New York Times Magazine, 1 January 1978, p. 11, illustrated in colour

Giancarlo Marmori, "Tamara de Lempicka," Zoom, January-February 1978, p. 114, illustrated in colour

M. Cottaz, “Tamara de Lempicka,” Spectacle du monde, March 1978, p. 118, illustrated

Joanne Harrison, “A Portrait of the Artist,” Houston City Magazine, August 1978, pp. 36-53; p. 40, illustrated

Giancarlo Marmori, Tamara de Lempicka. The Major Works of Tamara de Lempicka, Milan, 1978, p. 22, illustrated in colour

Germaine Bazin and Hiroyuki Itsuki, Tamara de Lempicka, Tokyo, 1980, no. 20, p. 7, illustrated

K. Joop, “Die bildschöne Malerin,” Welt am Sonntag, 31 May 1981, p. 26, illustrated

Ursula Habrecht and Annegret Grosskopf, “Sirene im Reich der Sinne,” Stern, February 1982, p. 144; pp. 134-35, illustrated

Patricia Franz Kery, Art Déco Œuvres graphiques, London and Milan, 1986, p. 43, illustrated in colour

Giancarlo Marmori, “Tamara,” FMR, no. 46, November 1986, pp. 100-101, illustrated in colour (detail)

Baroness Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall and Charles Phillips, Passion by Design, The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka, New York, 1987, pp. 80-81; p. 82, illustrated in colour

Wolfgang Joop, “Träume von Mythen und Moden,” Pan, May 1987, pp. 6-23; pp. 12-13, illustrated

Guillermina Olmedo, “Tamara de Lempicka”, Casas & Gente, January-February 1989, pp. 64 and 66-67

Henri Schoup, “Tamara de Lempicka,” Scope, Snoeck-Decaju & Zoon, Ghent, 1989, p. 168, illustrated

Guido Almansi, “Fatale, glaciale,” Art e Dossier, vol. VII, no. 71, September 1992, pp. 15-18; p. 18, illustrated

Ellen Thormann, Tamara de Lempicka. Kunstkritik und Künstlerinnen in Paris, Berlin, 1993, fig. 4, no. 37, n.p., illustrated in colour

Gioia Mori, “Lempicka,” Art e Dossier, vol. IX, no. 87, February 1994, p. 26, illustrated; p. 41

Gioia Mori, Tamara de Lempicka – Parigi 1920-1938, Florence, 1994, no. 40, p. 139, illustrated in colour (titled La belle Rafaëla (Raffaela la bèlle))

Alain Blondel, Tamara de Lempicka. Catalogue raisonné 1921-1979, Lausanne, 1999, no. B.87, p. 164, catalogued; p. 165, illustrated in colour

Laura P. Claridge, Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence, New York, 1999, illustrated in colour on the cover (detail); pp. 101, 122, 151-53, 162, 310, 331, 341 and 370

Gilles Neret, Tamara de Lempicka 1898-1980, Cologne, 2000, p. 45, illustrated in colour

Stefanie Penck, Tamara de Lempicka, Munich, Berlin, London and New York, 2004, pp. 8-9, illustrated in colour (detail); pp. 46-47, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., London, The Royal Academy of Arts and Vienna, Kunstforum Wien, Tamara de Lempicka, 2004, p. 43, illustrated in colour

Patrick Bade, Lempicka, New York, 2006, p. 151, illustrated in colour (dated circa 1927 and with the incorrect dimensions)

Exh. Cat., Boulogne-Billancourt, Musée des Années 30, Lempicka, 2006, pp. 36-37, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Tamara de Lempicka, 2009, p. 60, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Fine Art and Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Tamara de Lempicka et son époque, 2010, p. 146, illustrated

Gerry Souter and Patrick Bade, Tamara de Lempicka, New York, 2011, pp. 106-07

Ellis Avery, The Last Nude, New York, 2012, pp. 79-82

Paris, Salon d'Automne, 1927, no. 1377 (titled Raphaèla la belle)

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Salon, 1928, n.n.

(probably) Paris, Salon des Indépendantes, 1928, no. 2524 (titled Nu)

Paris, Galerie du Luxembourg, Tamara de Lempicka de 1925 à 1935, 1972, no. 17, p. 35, illustrated in colour

Tokyo, Seibu Art Museum and Osaka, Seibu Art Museum, Tamara de Lempicka, 1981

Rome, Accademia di Francia (Villa Medici) and Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Tamara de Lempicka. Tra eleganza e trasgressione, 1994, no. 17, pp. 52-53, illustrated in colour

Milan, Palazzo Reale, Tamara de Lempicka, 2006-07, no. 33, p. 32, illustrated in colour (dated May 1927)

Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Tamara de Lempicka: The Queen of Modern, 2011, no. 31, pp. 198-99, illustrated in colour; p. 196, illustrated in a reproduction of the 1928 The Graphic article

Pinacothèque de Paris, Tamara De Lempicka, la Reine de l’Art déco, 2013, no. 48, pp. 148-49, illustrated in colour (dated May 1927)

Turin, Palazzo Chiablese and Verona, Palazzo Forti, Tamara de Lempicka, 2015-16, no. 20, pp. 258-59, illustrated in colour and fig. 3, p. 246, illustrated in a reproduction of the 1928 The Graphic article (Turin); pp. 256-57, illustrated in colour and fig. 3, p. 244, illustrated in a reproduction of the 1928 The Graphic article (incorrectly referenced) (Verona)

San Francisco, de Young Museum and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Tamara de Lempicka, 2024-25, no. 89, p. 168, illustrated in colour