Monday, October 28, 2013

Ida Rubinstein as muse


Ida Lvovna Rubinstein (October 5, 1885, Kharkiv, Ukraine – September 20, 1960, Vence, France): dancer, actress, patroness, impresario, heiress and celebrity.  Best remembered today for her early affiliation with Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.

By Antonio de La Gándara, 1913
By Valentin Serov, 1910
By Léon Bakst, circa 1910
By Jacques-Émile Blanche, circa 1910, in the role of Zobéide in Scheherazade
By Romaine Brooks, 1917


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