Ida Rubinstein in Scheherazade,1910
Ida Rubinstein as Basiliola in La Nave,1921
[was just thinking about them earlier today;]
liquidnight:Romaine Brooks - Le Trajet, The Crossing, Ida Rubinstein, Oil on canvas, circa 1911
[via Sexuality & Love in the Arts ]
frenchtwist:Portrait of Ida Rubinstein, 1918 by Romaine Brooks
… looking as Jean Cocteau saw her, ‘like the pungent perfume of some exotic essence, ethereal, otherworldly, divinely unattainable’.