On her left ear is a large tear-drop shaped earring encrusted with pearls and diamonds. Her thin lips are closed and brightly outlined in red. Her face is made up and black/brown lines outline neat eyebrows, her eyelids and eye lashes. She holds herself rigid, ill-at-ease, maintaining proud posture and staring beyond us. She has large ears and creases nose to mouth-corners.
A patch of shadow accentuates the soft, vertical folds in the paper-thin skin of her neck. Helena’s olive skin shows signs of age at the corners of her thin, ruby-red mouth and noticeably defined jowl. She has wide nostrils and a prominent nose casting a thin shadow onto her (barely visible) right cheek. Here, her complexion is smooth and liberally dusted with pink blusher. There are creases in the soft skin around her dark eye on the left side of her face. Her thick hair is tied at her nape, soft curls gather in a black ribbon hugging the back of her neck.įurrows mark the commencement of an arch to each small, well-kept eyebrow. Her mid-length black hair is pulled tightly back, her sleek up-do highlights her high forehead and clearly visible grey hairs just above her left ear. Helena Rubenstein’s body is turned slightly, her left side more prominently displayed and she gazes out of the portrait to her right, looking rather tense. Helena is seated, her head held high, a mature woman exuding glamour and style wearing a sumptuous, ruby-red gown juxtaposed against a dove grey background.
2m high and 1m wide, showing a view of Helena from head to below her knees. The gold-and-cream framed work, is approx. This is an oil on canvas portrait of Helena Rubinstein – entrepreneur and founder of her own global cosmetics corporation. Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC, Tim Fairfax AC and the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2015 In her 1964 memoir My Life for Beauty Rubinstein wrote: 'They were both incredibly bold, domineering interpretations of what I had never imagined I looked like … Yet later, when they were exhibited at the Tate Gallery, although I scarcely recognized myself through Sutherland's eyes, I had to admit that as paintings they were indeed masterpieces.' Graham Sutherland painted two portraits of Rubinstein wearing a Balenciaga dress. In 1973, the Helena Rubinstein brand was sold to Colgate-Palmolive, and is now owned by L'Oréal. Fleeing wartime France, she opened in New York in 1916, becoming one of the first luxury beauty brands in the US other stand-alone and department store salons followed. Having expanded to Sydney and New Zealand, in 1908 Rubinstein departed with £100,000 to open modern salons in London and Paris. In late 1905 she established the Valaze Institute in Collins Street, offering various beauty treatments and developing skincare and makeup. She opened her first beauty salon in Melbourne in 1902, with her signature Crème Valaze. When local women admired her skin, she is said to have set about importing pots of face cream made by a chemist in Poland. Rubinstein left her home in Kraków, Poland at 22 and moved Coleraine, Victoria. 1870–1965), cosmetician, businesswoman and philanthropist, is the founder of one of the first international cosmetic companies.
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