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Object Details
- Artist
- Romaine Brooks, born Rome, Italy 1874-died Nice, France 1970
- Exhibition Label
- Le Trajet, Brooks's nude study of Ida Rubinstein, is a candid image of female sensuality charged by the women's own relationship. Rubinstein's pale, languid form floats, buoyed on a winglike shape in an inky void, creating a visionary, dreamlike space of eroticism and reverie. Symbolic associations between sex and death were common in European art of the time; the title suggests a meditation on transitions: from passion to relaxation, wakefulness to sleep, and life to death.
- The Art of Romaine Brooks, 2016
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist
- ca. 1911
- Object number
- 1968.18.3
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45 3/8 x 75 3/8 in. (115.2 x 191.4 cm.)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure female\full length
- Allegory\death
- State of being\death
- Record ID
- saam_1968.18.3
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7006d8650-ac14-4686-aba1-a1e0d9cc9a4b
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