Frame inside | Portrait of a Young Lady in a Blue Dress | Tamara de Lempicka, 1922

Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of a Young Lady in a Blue Dress (Ira Perott), 1922

Ira Perrot with her own portrait painted by Tamara de Lempicka, 1922

Ira Perrot was a French poet and a wealthy neighbor of Tamara de Lempicka in Paris. She became the artist’s first major female muse, closest confidante, and passionate lover during the early 1920s.
Aside from Lempicka’s own daughter, Kizette, no other subject appears as frequently in her body of work as Ira Perrot.

“Ira would come in her studio and drop her robe.
She was never modest or shy, she was a model…”

Tamara de Lempicka
“Passion by Design: The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka”, Baroness Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall, 1987

Also:
Frame Inside | Portrait of Tadeusz de Lempicki / Tamara de Lempicka, 1928