Romaine Brooks
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Romaine Brooks was an American painter who worked mostly in Paris and Capri. She specialized in portraiture and used a subdued tonal palette keyed to the color gray. Brooks ignored contemporary artist
Romaine Brooks, c. 1894
Self-portrait; Au bord de la mer; 1914
The Black Cap (1907)
Romaine Brooks, c. 1910 / Perou, photographer. From the Romaine Brooks papers, Archives of American Art.
Ida Rubinstein
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Ida Lvovna Rubinstein was a Russian dancer, actress, art patron and Belle Époque figure. She performed with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes from 1909 to 1911 and later formed her own company. Boléro
Romaine Brooks
…to choose her own subjects. She often painted people close to her, such as the Italian writer and politician Gabriele D'Annunzio, the Russian dancer Ida Rubinstein, and her partner of more than 50 years, the writer Natalie Barney. Although she lived until 1970, it is erroneously believed that she painted very…
Rubinstein in 1912
Rubinstein in Scheherazade, 1910
Valentin Serov, portrait of Ida as Salomé, 1910.
Rubinstein as St. Sebastian in the play Le Martyre de saint Sébastien, 1911