Tamara de Lempicka – The Dream (1927)

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Tamara de Lempicka – The Dream (1927)

“Painted in 1927 by Lempicka in Paris, the portrait can be described as a suggestive portrayal of a femme fatale in repose. The composition combines classical artistry with the bold aesthetics of the Art Deco movement and “exudes an air of sensuality and mystery, typical of Lempicka’s exploration of female empowerment and eroticism”.

The artwork was first exhibited in 1929 at the Carnegie International Exhibition in the United States as The Dream though it has also been frequently referred to as Le rêve (Rafaëla sur fond vert) as such a title appears in Lempicka’s own photo-archives. Rafaëla, who served as the model for the picture, was a young woman whom the painter met in the Bois de Boulogne, an area notoriously frequented by prostitutes. She would become one of Lempicka’s most frequent models in her art of the late 1920s featuring in her 1927 masterpiece “La Belle Rafaëla”. According to Patrick Bade, her rendering of Rafaëla is “Amongst the most potently erotic works of de Lempicka in which the desire of the artist for the soft and curvaceous body of the model is palpable”.

Elizabeth Gorayed further notes that the sensuous and seductive depiction of the young woman was meant to enchant the viewer of the artist’s composition. She goes on to observe the model’s similarity of appearance to some of the most popular Hollywood film stars of the era stating that the artist wanted to encapsulate the beauty standards of the 1920s “fast and modern society”.

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