239 pages color illustrations, facsimiles, portraits 26 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Place:
Oceania
New York (State)
New York
Date:
2019
Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac from November 19, 2019-June 28, 2020
AFA copy 39088020385191 Purchased from the Warren M. Robbins Library Endowment.
Contents:
Recollections of the Helena Rubinstein sale of African and oceanic art / David Nash -- Madame's collection : Africa at its heart / Hélène Joubert -- Frederic-Henri Lem's mid-twentieth century case for African art and its study / Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi -- Equatorial African treasures from the Rubinstein collection / Charlotte Grand-Dufay -- Masks, mirrors, and Mise en scène. The collection and the image / Yaëlle Biro -- Madame and me / Suzanne Slesin -- Helena Rubinstein: the power of an art collection / Julie Verlaine -- To collect "Au Féminin" / Susan Kloman -- A conversation with Estrellita B. Brodsky / Catherine Grenier
Summary:
An extraordinary figure, the first 20th century business woman, a self-made and emancipated woman, a visionary... There are no shortage of superlatives to describe the incredible rise to fame of Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965), dubbed the Empress of beauty by Cocteau, but her role as an experienced collector and a pioneer in the recognition of African and Oceanic arts in Europe and North America is often overlooked. Primarily amassed in Paris through her various encounters, "Madame?s collection", now dispersed, comprised over 400 pieces of non-European art including precious Kota and Fang reliquary guardians, exceptional Baoulé, Bamana, Senoufo and Doghon pieces stood alongside works by contemporary painters and sculptors such as Chagall, Braque and Picasso, as well as the array of other spheres covered by the collection
