Vem daterade Romaine Brooks?

Romaine Brooks (born Beatrice Romaine Goddard; May 1, 1874 – December 7, 1970) was an American painter who worked mostly in Paris and Capri. She specialized in portraiture and used a subdued tonal palette keyed to the color gray. Brooks ignored contemporary artistic trends such as Cubism and Fauvism, drawing on her own original aesthetic inspired by the works of Charles Conder, Walter Sickert, and James McNeill Whistler. Her subjects ranged from anonymous models to titled aristocrats. She is best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress, including her self-portrait of 1923, which is her most widely reproduced work.

Although her family was wealthy, Brooks had an unhappy childhood after her alcoholic father abandoned the family; her mother was emotionally abusive and her brother mentally ill. By her own account, her childhood cast a shadow over her whole life. She spent several years in Italy and France as a poor art student, then inherited a fortune upon her mother's death in 1902. Wealth gave her the freedom to choose her own subjects. She often painted people close to her, such as the Italian writer and politician Gabriele D'Annunzio, the Russian dancer Ida Rubinstein, and her partner of more than 50 years, the writer Natalie Barney.

Although she lived until 1970, it is erroneously believed that she painted very little after 1925 despite evidence to the contrary. She made a series of drawings during the 1930s, using an "unpremeditated" techniques predating automatic drawing. She spent time in New York City in the mid 1930s, completing portraits of Carl Van Vechten and Muriel Draper. Many of her works are unaccounted for, but photographic reproductions attest to her ongoing artwork. It is thought to have culminated in her 1961 portrait of Duke Uberto Strozzi.

Ida Lvovna Rubinstein (Rubinsjtejn), född 5 oktober 1885 i Charkov, Kejsardömet Ryssland (nuvarande Ukraina), död 20 september 1960 i Vence, Frankrike, var en rysk ballerina och mecenat.

Natalie Clifford Barney, född 31 oktober 1876, död 2 februari 1972, var en amerikansk författare och poet.

Hon bodde i Paris där hon kunde var öppet lesbisk och började publicera kärleksdikter till kvinnor under sitt eget namn redan 1900 och betraktade skandalen som "det bästa sättet att bli av med olägenheter" (vilket betyder heterosexuell uppmärksamhet från unga män). Hon skrev på både franska och engelska. I sina skrifter stödde hon feminism och pacifism. Hon motsatte sig monogami och hade många överlappande långa och kortvariga relationer, däribland återkommande romanser med poeten Renée Vivien och dansaren Armen Ohanian och ett 50-årigt förhållande med målaren Romaine Brooks. Hennes liv och kärleksaffärer fungerade som inspiration för många romaner skrivna av andra, allt från den franska oanständiga bästsäljaren Idylle Saphique till Ensamhetens brunn, den mest berömda lesbiska romanen under 1900-talet.

I hennes salonger rörde sig författare som Marcel Proust, André Gide, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus samt och Duchesse de Clermond-Tonnerre och Colette.