Nagel's art "capture[s] the emotional state of an era: 1980s American desire, collective materialistic aspiration, a state of mind."
Nagel expert Mark Walker found the model for the 'Rio' cover in a Paris Vogue spread from 1981 for Angelo Tarlazzi's line of eyewear.
"I saw that smile. I saw those eyes, those eyes that I'd stared at hundreds of times by this point in my life, hundreds if not thousands of times... I knew it was her," Walker writes.
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