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BERINGER VASILY YAKOVLEVICH
Russia 1875-1942
Ida Rubinstein in the role of Cleopatra
Signed and dated 1915. Tempera and watercolour on cardboard, 101,5 x 70,5 cm.

Born into a wealthy Jewish family, Ida Rubinstein was orphaned at an early age. From the age of two, she and her sister lived in a mansion on the English Embankment in Saint Petersburg, with their aunt, the socialite Madame Horowitz. Her family were extremely wealthy industrialists.
Against her family´s wishes, Rubinstein was determined to study dance, and went to Paris to do so. While there, her cousin tried, unsuccessfully, to have her certified as insane. On her return to St. Petersburg, she made her
stage debut in 1908. This was a single private performance of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, in which she stripped naked in the course of the Dance of the Seven Veils. The performance brought her instant scandaous fame, and she became much painted, most famously by Valentin Serov, in one of his most accomplished and best known works.
Sergei Diaghilev took her with the Ballets Russes and she danced the title role of Cléopâtre in the Paris season of 1909, and Zobéide in Scheherazade in 1910. Both ballets were choreographed by Fokine, and designed by Léon Bakst. The finale of Cléopâtre inspired Kees van Dongen's Souvenir of the Russian Opera Season 1909. Her partner in Scheherazade was the great Nijinsky.

Auktionsnummer:

3207

Datum:

2017-06-08