#rubinstein.

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Jacques-Émile Blanche, Ida Rubinstein as Zobeide (1922).

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Léon Bakst, Mme Ida Rubinstein (c. 1910.)

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‘It was Ida Rubinstein's elusive quality that fascinated. She expressed an inner self that had no particular denomination. Her beauty belonged to those mental images that demand manifestation, and whatever period she represented she became its image. In reality she was the crystallization of a poet's image, a painter's vision, and as such she possessed further significance ... It was her gift for impersonating the beauty of every époque, that marked Ida Rubinstein as unique.’

Romaine Brooks (1874-1970) about Ida Rubinstein (1883-1960.)

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Romaine Brooks, Ida Rubinstein (1917.)

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Valentin Serov, Portrait of Ida Rubinstein (1910).